abstain | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: desist, refrain |
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(verb) refrain from voting | - |
abstainer | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstinent, nondrinker |
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(noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | Synonyms: ascetic |
appertain | (verb) be a part or attribute of | Synonyms: pertain |
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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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attain | (verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | Synonyms: hit, reach |
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(verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, gain, hit, make, reach |
(verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, discover, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strike |
(verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, reach |
attainability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainableness |
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attainable | (adjective) capable of being attained or accomplished | Synonyms: come-at-able |
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attainableness | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainability |
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attainder | (noun) cancellation of civil rights | Synonyms: civil death |
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attained | (adjective) achieved or reached | - |
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attainment | (noun) the act of achieving an aim | - |
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(noun) arrival at a new stage | - |
(noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, skill |
attaint | (verb) condemn by attainder | - |
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(verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, shame |
aventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: camail, ventail |
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backstair | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstairs, furtive |
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backstairs | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, furtive |
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(noun) a second staircase at the rear of a building | - |
bandtail | (noun) wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon | Synonyms: band-tail pigeon, band-tailed pigeon, Columba fasciata |
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bangtail | (noun) a horse bred for racing | Synonyms: race horse, racehorse |
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betaine | (noun) a sweet tasting alkaloid that occurs in sugar beets | - |
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blacktail | (noun) mule deer of western Rocky Mountains | Synonyms: black-tailed deer, blacktail deer, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus |
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bloodstain | (noun) a discoloration caused by blood | - |
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bloodstained | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: gory |
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bobtail | (adjective) having a short or shortened tail | Synonyms: bobtailed |
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(noun) a short or shortened tail of certain animals | Synonyms: bob, dock |
(noun) large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain | Synonyms: Old English sheepdog |
bobtailed | (adjective) having a short or shortened tail | Synonyms: bobtail |
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bristletail | (noun) small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail | - |
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broadtail | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: caracul, karakul |
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(noun) the fur of a very young karakul lamb | - |
browntail | (noun) small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States; pest of various shade and fruit trees | Synonyms: brown-tail moth, Euproctis phaeorrhoea |
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captain | (noun) a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers | Synonyms: headwaiter, maitre d', maitre d'hotel |
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(noun) the pilot in charge of an airship | Synonyms: senior pilot |
(noun) the naval officer in command of a military ship | Synonyms: skipper |
(noun) an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship | Synonyms: master, sea captain, skipper |
(noun) a policeman in charge of a precinct | Synonyms: police captain, police chief |
(noun) an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant | - |
(noun) the leader of a group of people | Synonyms: chieftain |
(verb) be the captain of a sports team | - |
captaincy | (noun) the post of captain | Synonyms: captainship |
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captainship | (noun) the post of captain | Synonyms: captaincy |
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catamountain | (noun) bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat | Synonyms: European wildcat, Felis silvestris |
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cattail | (noun) tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes | - |
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certain | (adjective) established beyond doubt or question; definitely known | - |
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(adjective) having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured | Synonyms: sure |
(adjective) certain to occur; destined or inevitable | Synonyms: sure |
(adjective) established irrevocably | Synonyms: sealed |
(adjective) exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance | Synonyms: sure |
(adjective) definite but not specified or identified | - |
(adjective) reliable in operation or effect | Synonyms: sure |
certainly | (adverb) definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely') | Synonyms: for certain, for sure, sure, sure as shooting, sure enough, surely |
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certainty | (noun) something that is certain | Synonyms: foregone conclusion, sure thing |
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(noun) the state of being certain | - |
chevrotain | (noun) very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa | Synonyms: mouse deer |
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chieftain | (noun) the head of a tribe or clan | Synonyms: chief, headman, tribal chief |
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(noun) the leader of a group of people | Synonyms: captain |
chieftaincy | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftainship |
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chieftainship | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftaincy |
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chigetai | (noun) Mongolian wild ass | Synonyms: dziggetai, Equus hemionus hemionus |
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coattail | (noun) the loose back flap of a coat that hangs below the waist | - |
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cocktail | (noun) a short mixed drink | - |
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(noun) an appetizer served as a first course at a meal | - |
contain | (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, check, hold back, stop, turn back |
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(verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
(verb) include or contain; have as a component | Synonyms: comprise, incorporate |
(verb) be divisible by | - |
(verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: bear, carry, hold |
(verb) be capable of holding or containing | Synonyms: hold, take |
contained | (adjective) gotten under control | - |
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container | (noun) any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) | - |
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containerful | (noun) the quantity that a container will hold | - |
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containerise | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerize |
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containerize | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerise |
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containership | (noun) a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes | Synonyms: container ship, container vessel |
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containment | (noun) the act of containing; keeping something from spreading | - |
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(noun) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor | - |
(noun) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully | - |
cottontail | (noun) common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) | Synonyms: cottontail rabbit, wood rabbit |
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counterstain | (noun) a stain of contrasting color that is used when the principal stain does not show the structure clearly | - |
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curtail | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, cut back, restrict |
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(verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: clip, cut short |
curtailment | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: suppression |
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(noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment |
(noun) the temporal property of being cut short | - |
curtain | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: drape, drapery, mantle, pall |
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(noun) any barrier to communication or vision | - |
(verb) provide with drapery | - |
curtained | (adjective) furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies | - |
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curtainless | (adjective) not provided with curtains | Synonyms: uncurtained |
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destain | (verb) remove stain from (a laboratory specimen) to enhance contrast | - |
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detail | (noun) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: item, point |
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(noun) extended treatment of particulars | - |
(noun) a temporary military unit | Synonyms: contingent |
(noun) a crew of workers selected for a particular task | - |
(noun) a small part that can be considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: item, particular |
(verb) assign to a specific task | - |
(verb) provide details for | - |
detailed | (adjective) developed or executed with care and in minute detail | Synonyms: elaborate, elaborated |
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detailing | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: particularisation, particularization |
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details | (noun) true confidential information | Synonyms: inside information |
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detain | (verb) cause to be slowed down or delayed | Synonyms: delay, hold up |
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(verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: delay, stay |
(verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement | Synonyms: confine |
detainee | (noun) some held in custody | Synonyms: political detainee |
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detainment | (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detention, hold |
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dovetail | (noun) a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises | Synonyms: dovetail joint |
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(verb) fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail | - |
downstair | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstairs |
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downstairs | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstair |
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(adverb) on a floor below | Synonyms: below, down the stairs, on a lower floor |
dziggetai | (noun) Mongolian wild ass | Synonyms: chigetai, Equus hemionus hemionus |
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edutainment | (noun) entertainment that is intended to be educational | - |
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entail | (noun) the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple | - |
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(noun) land received by fee tail | - |
(verb) limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs | Synonyms: fee-tail |
(verb) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result | Synonyms: implicate |
(verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: imply, mean |
entailment | (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: deduction, implication |
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entertain | (verb) take into consideration, have in view | Synonyms: flirt with, think about, think of, toy with |
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(verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, harbor, harbour, hold, nurse |
(verb) provide entertainment for | - |
entertained | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: amused, diverted |
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entertainer | (noun) a person who tries to please or amuse | - |
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entertaining | (adjective) agreeably diverting | - |
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entertainingly | (adverb) in an entertaining manner | - |
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entertainment | (noun) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention | Synonyms: amusement |
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fantail | (noun) an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship | - |
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fishtail | (verb) slow down by moving the tail sideways | - |
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flickertail | (noun) of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada | Synonyms: Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel |
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fountain | (noun) a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water | Synonyms: fount |
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(noun) an artificially produced flow of water | Synonyms: jet |
(noun) a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises | - |
(noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: natural spring, outflow, outpouring, spring |
fountainhead | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: well, wellspring |
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(noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: head, headspring |
foxtail | (noun) grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes | Synonyms: foxtail grass |
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freetail | (noun) small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions | Synonyms: free-tailed bat, freetailed bat |
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hairtail | (noun) long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | Synonyms: cutlassfish, frost fish |
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hightail | (verb) retreat at full speed | Synonyms: high-tail |
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horsetail | (noun) perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in Northern Hemisphere; some in Africa and South America | - |
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incertain | (adjective) lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance | Synonyms: uncertain, unsure |
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infotainment | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary, documentary film |
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maintain | (verb) stick to correctly or closely | Synonyms: keep, observe |
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(verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, asseverate |
(verb) state or assert | Synonyms: defend |
(verb) support against an opponent | Synonyms: uphold |
(verb) maintain by writing regular records | Synonyms: keep |
(verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: keep, sustain |
(verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: conserve, keep up, preserve |
(verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: exert, wield |
(verb) maintain for use and service | Synonyms: keep |
(verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: hold, keep |
maintainable | (adjective) capable of being maintained | - |
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maintained | (adjective) kept in good condition | Synonyms: kept up, well-kept |
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(adjective) continued in your keeping or use or memory | Synonyms: retained |
maintainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: sustainer, upholder |
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matai | (noun) conifer of Australia and New Zealand | Synonyms: black pine, Podocarpus spicata, Prumnopitys taxifolia |
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militainment | (noun) entertainment with military themes in which the Department of Defense is celebrated | - |
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mountain | (noun) a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill | Synonyms: mount |
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(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
mountaineer | (noun) someone who climbs mountains | Synonyms: mountain climber |
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(verb) climb mountains for pleasure as a sport | - |
mountaineering | (noun) the activity of climbing a mountain | Synonyms: mountain climbing |
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