emulator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, imitator |
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emunctorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: purificator, purificatorium |
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enteroceptor | (noun) any receptor that responds to stimuli inside the body | Synonyms: interoceptor |
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enumerator | (noun) someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes | Synonyms: census taker |
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eoraptor | (noun) a theropod dinosaur of the genus Eoraptor | - |
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epilator | (noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | Synonyms: depilator, depilatory |
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epistolatory | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolary |
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equator | (noun) an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles | - |
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(noun) a circle dividing a sphere or other surface into two usually equal and symmetrical parts | - |
equatorial | (adjective) of or existing at or near the geographic equator | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to conditions at the geographical equator | - |
(adjective) of or relating to or at an equator | - |
(noun) a telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth's axis and the other one at right angles to it | - |
equivocator | (noun) a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer | Synonyms: hedger, tergiversator |
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eradicator | (noun) someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) | Synonyms: exterminator, terminator |
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escalator | (noun) a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt | Synonyms: moving staircase, moving stairway |
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(noun) a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index) | Synonyms: escalator clause |
estimator | (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, computer, figurer, reckoner |
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evaluator | (noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality | Synonyms: judge |
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excavator | (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: digger, power shovel, shovel |
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(noun) a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying | - |
excitatory | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitative |
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exclamatory | (adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: emphatic |
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excogitator | (noun) a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly | - |
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excretory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of excretion | - |
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exculpatory | (adjective) clearing of guilt or blame | - |
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excusatory | (adjective) offering or expressing apology | Synonyms: apologetic |
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executor | (noun) a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will | - |
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exhibitor | (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitioner, shower |
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exhortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory |
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expectorant | (noun) a medicine promoting expectoration | Synonyms: expectorator |
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expectorate | (verb) discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth | Synonyms: cough out, cough up, spit out, spit up |
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(verb) clear out the chest and lungs | Synonyms: clear out, drive out |
expectoration | (noun) the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) | Synonyms: spit, spitting |
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(noun) the process of coughing up and spitting out | - |
expectorator | (noun) a medicine promoting expectoration | Synonyms: expectorant |
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(noun) a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth) | Synonyms: spitter |
expiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, propitiatory |
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expiratory | (adjective) of or relating to the breathing out phase of respiration | - |
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explanatory | (adjective) serving or intended to explain or make clear | - |
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exploitatory | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitive |
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exploratory | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: explorative |
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expositor | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expounder |
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expository | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expositive |
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expurgator | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, bowdlerizer |
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exterminator | (noun) someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) | Synonyms: eradicator, terminator |
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exteroceptor | (noun) any receptor that responds to stimuli outside the body | - |
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exterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: extraterritorial |
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extirpator | (noun) a farm implement used to remove weeds. | - |
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extort | (verb) get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner | Synonyms: wring from |
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(verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: gouge, rack, squeeze, wring |
(verb) obtain through intimidation | - |
extortion | (noun) the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence) | - |
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(noun) unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority) | - |
(noun) an exorbitant charge | - |
extortionate | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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extortionately | (adverb) to an exorbitant degree | Synonyms: exorbitantly, usuriously |
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extortioner | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: blackmailer, extortionist |
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extortionist | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: blackmailer, extortioner |
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extractor | (noun) an instrument for extracting tight-fitting components | - |
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(noun) an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension | Synonyms: centrifuge, separator |
(noun) a mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty shell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector | Synonyms: cartridge extractor, cartridge remover |
extraterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: exterritorial |
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fabricator | (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fibber, storyteller |
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facilitator | (noun) someone who makes progress easier | - |
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facilitatory | (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity | - |
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factor | (noun) (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity | Synonyms: cistron, gene |
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(noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, element, ingredient |
(noun) an independent variable in statistics | - |
(noun) anything that contributes causally to a result | - |
(noun) a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission | Synonyms: agent, broker |
(noun) one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer | Synonyms: divisor |
(noun) any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together | - |
(verb) resolve into factors | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
(verb) consider as relevant when making a decision | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
(verb) be a contributing factor | - |
factorial | (adjective) of or relating to factorials | - |
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(noun) the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer | - |
factoring | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factorisation, factorization |
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factorisation | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorization |
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factorise | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorize |
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factorization | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorisation |
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factorize | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorise |
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factory | (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill |
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fetor | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench, stink |
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feudatory | (adjective) of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord | - |
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(adjective) owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign | - |
(noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: liege, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
firestorm | (noun) an outburst of controversy | - |
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(noun) a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area | - |
flocculator | (noun) An apparatus used in the process of flocculation. | - |
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foetor | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench, stink |
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fornicator | (noun) someone who commits adultery or fornication | Synonyms: adulterer |
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fryolator | (noun) A kitchen appliance for deep frying; its size depends on intended use. | Synonyms: deep fat fryer, deep fryer, frier, fryer |
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fumigator | (noun) a device that generates a gas for the purpose of disinfecting or eradicating pests | - |
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(noun) someone whose job is to fumigate | - |
fumitory | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumeroot, fumewort |
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gator | (noun) either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts | Synonyms: alligator |
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gearmotor | (noun) a motor combined with a set of speed-reducing gears. | - |
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generator | (noun) engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction | - |
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(noun) an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas | - |
(noun) an electronic device for producing a signal voltage | - |
(noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: author, source |
genitor | (noun) a natural father or mother | - |
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gladiator | (noun) (ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat | - |
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(noun) a professional boxer | Synonyms: prizefighter |
gladiatorial | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling gladiators or their combat | - |
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gradatory | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, graduated |
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grantor | (noun) a person who makes a grant in legal form | - |
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granulator | (noun) a machine that forms material (such as plastics, bottles, organics, etc.) into granules. | Synonyms: granulator machine |
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gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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guarantor | (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: surety, warranter, warrantor |
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gubernatorial | (adjective) relating to a governor | - |
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gustatorial | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatory |
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gustatory | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial |
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hailstorm | (noun) a storm during which hail falls | - |
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hallucinatory | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of hallucination | - |
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haustorium | (noun) a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host | - |
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hector | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, push around, strong-arm |
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heritor | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heir, inheritor |
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hesitator | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitater, vacillator, waverer |
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historian | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historiographer |
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historic | (adjective) important in history | - |
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(adjective) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past | Synonyms: historical |
historical | (adjective) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time | Synonyms: diachronic |
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(adjective) of or relating to the study of history | - |
(adjective) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past | Synonyms: historic |
(adjective) having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary | - |
historically | (adverb) with respect to history | - |
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(adverb) throughout history | - |
historicalness | (noun) significance owing to its history | - |
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(noun) the state of having in fact existed in the past | - |
historicism | (noun) a theory that social and cultural events are determined by history | - |
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historied | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: celebrated, storied |
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historiographer | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historian |
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historiography | (noun) the writing of history | - |
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(noun) a body of historical literature | - |
history | (noun) the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings | - |
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(noun) all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge | - |
(noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: account, chronicle, story |
(noun) the aggregate of past events | - |
(noun) the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future | - |
hortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative |
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ignitor | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, light, lighter |
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(noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: igniter, lighter |