compatriot | (noun) a person from your own country | - |
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concentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentrical, homocentric |
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concentrical | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, homocentric |
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concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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constrict | (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constringe, narrow |
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(verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, contract, press, squeeze |
constricted | (adjective) drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically | - |
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(adjective) especially tense; especially in some dialects | - |
constricting | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constrictive, narrowing |
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constriction | (noun) the action or process of compressing | - |
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(noun) a tight feeling in some part of the body | Synonyms: tightness |
(noun) tight or narrow compression | Synonyms: coarctation |
(noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, chokepoint |
constrictive | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, narrowing |
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(adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, limiting, restricting |
constrictor | (noun) any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils | - |
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constringe | (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constrict, narrow |
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contribute | (verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, give, kick in |
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(verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, impart, lend |
(verb) provide | Synonyms: put up |
(verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, lead |
contributing | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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contribution | (noun) act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity | Synonyms: donation |
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(noun) a writing for publication especially one of a collection of writings as an article or story | - |
(noun) the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result | Synonyms: part, share |
(noun) a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause | Synonyms: donation |
(noun) an amount of money contributed | - |
contributive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary |
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contributor | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: subscriber |
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(noun) a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book | - |
contributory | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary |
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contrite | (adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | Synonyms: remorseful, rueful, ruthful |
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contritely | (adverb) in a rueful manner | Synonyms: remorsefully, ruefully |
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contriteness | (noun) sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation | Synonyms: attrition, contrition |
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contrition | (noun) sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation | Synonyms: attrition, contriteness |
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contrivance | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: devisal |
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(noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
(noun) any improvised arrangement for temporary use | Synonyms: lash-up |
(noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: dodge, stratagem |
(noun) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill | - |
(noun) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. | - |
contrive | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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(verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: design, plan, project |
(verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, project, throw |
contrived | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted |
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(adjective) showing effects of planning or manipulation | - |
contriver | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: deviser, planner |
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counterstrike | (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterattack |
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countrified | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countryfied, rustic |
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craniometric | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometrical |
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craniometrical | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometric |
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cytophotometric | (adjective) of or relating to the study of cells by means of a cytophotometer | - |
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cytophotometrically | (adverb) by cytophotometric means | - |
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denitrify | (verb) remove nitrogen from | - |
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derestrict | (verb) make free from restrictions | - |
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detribalisation | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalization |
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(noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalization |
detribalise | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalize |
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detribalization | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalisation |
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(noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalisation |
detribalize | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalise |
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detriment | (noun) a damage or loss | Synonyms: hurt |
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detrimental | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, prejudicial, prejudicious |
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detrimentally | (adverb) in a detrimental manner | Synonyms: harmfully, noxiously |
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detrition | (noun) effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure | Synonyms: friction, rubbing |
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(noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, grinding |
(noun) erosion by friction | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, corrasion |
detritus | (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, dust, junk, rubble |
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(noun) loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks | - |
devitrify | (verb) become crystalline | - |
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(verb) make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque | - |
dextrin | (noun) any of various polysaccharides obtained by hydrolysis of starch; a tasteless and odorless gummy substance that is used as a thickening agent and in adhesives and in dietary supplements | - |
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diametric | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametral, diametrical |
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(adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametrical, opposite, polar |
diametrical | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametral, diametric |
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(adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, opposite, polar |
diametrically | (adverb) as from opposite ends of a diameter | - |
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diatribe | (noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: fulmination |
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dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane | (noun) an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 | Synonyms: DDT |
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dielectric | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: insulator, nonconductor |
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distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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distribute | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread |
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(verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: stagger |
(verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: spread |
(verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on |
(verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
(verb) give to several people | Synonyms: give out, hand out, pass out |
(verb) release | - |
(verb) be mathematically distributive | - |
(verb) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses | - |
(verb) spread throughout a given area | - |
distributed | (adjective) spread out or scattered about or divided up | - |
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distributer | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributor, electrical distributor |
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(noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributor |
distribution | (noun) the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning | - |
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(noun) the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer | - |
(noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: dispersion |
(noun) (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence | Synonyms: statistical distribution |
distributional | (adjective) of or relating to spatial distribution | - |
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distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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distributively | (adverb) in a distributive manner | - |
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(adverb) as individuals or as separate units (not collectively) | - |
distributor | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributer, electrical distributor |
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(noun) a company that markets merchandise | - |
(noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributer |
(noun) a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion | Synonyms: allocator |
district | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: dominion, territorial dominion, territory |
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(verb) regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns | Synonyms: zone |
doctrinaire | (adjective) stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | - |
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(noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: dogmatist |
doctrinal | (adjective) relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine | - |
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doctrinally | (adverb) as a matter of doctrine | - |
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doctrine | (noun) a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school | Synonyms: ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought |
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dominatrix | (noun) a dominating woman (especially one who plays that role in a sadomasochistic sexual relationship) | - |
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drawstring | (noun) a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | Synonyms: drawing string, string |
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dumbstricken | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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eccentric | (adjective) not having a common center; not concentric | Synonyms: nonconcentric |
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(adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
(noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball |
(noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | Synonyms: case, character, type |
eccentrically | (adverb) not symmetrically with respect to the center | - |
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(adverb) in an eccentric or bizarre manner | - |
eccentricity | (noun) strange and unconventional behavior | - |
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(noun) a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path | - |
(noun) (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis | - |
econometric | (adjective) of or relating to econometrics | - |
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econometrician | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrist |
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econometrics | (noun) the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data | - |
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econometrist | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrician |
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egocentric | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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(noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egoist |
egocentrism | (noun) concern for your own interests and welfare | Synonyms: egoism, self-centeredness, self-concern, self-interest |
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egotrip | (verb) act in a way that attracts attention | - |
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electric | (adjective) using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity | Synonyms: electrical |
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(adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: galvanic, galvanising, galvanizing |
(adjective) (of a situation) exceptionally tense | - |
(noun) a car that is powered by electricity | Synonyms: electric automobile, electric car |
electrical | (adjective) relating to or concerned with electricity | - |
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(adjective) using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity | Synonyms: electric |
electrically | (adverb) by electricity | - |
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electrician | (noun) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | Synonyms: lineman, linesman |
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electricity | (noun) keen and shared excitement | - |
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(noun) a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons | - |
(noun) energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor | Synonyms: electrical energy, power |
electrification | (noun) the activity of thrilling or markedly exciting some person or group | - |
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(noun) the act of providing electricity | - |
electrify | (verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: wire |
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(verb) charge (a conductor) with electricity | - |
(verb) excite suddenly and intensely | - |
electrifying | (adjective) causing a surge of emotion or excitement | Synonyms: thrilling |
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endocentric | (adjective) fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents | - |
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endometrial | (adjective) of or relating to the endometrium | - |
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endometriosis | (noun) the presence of endometrium elsewhere than in the lining of the uterus; causes premenstrual pain and dysmenorrhea | Synonyms: adenomyosis |
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endometritis | (noun) inflammation of the lining of the uterus (of the endometrium) | Synonyms: metritis |
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endometrium | (noun) (pregnancy) the mucous membrane that lines the uterus; thickens under hormonal control and (if pregnancy does not occur) is shed in menstruation; if pregnancy occurs it is shed along with the placenta at parturition | - |
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entric | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals | Synonyms: enteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria |
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epigastric | (adjective) lying on or over the stomach | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen | - |
epigastrium | (noun) the region lying on or over the stomach (just below the sternum) | - |
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equestrian | (adjective) of or relating to or featuring horseback riding | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or composed of knights | - |
(noun) a person skilled in equitation | Synonyms: horseback rider |
equidistribution | (noun) a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence | - |
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estriol | (noun) a naturally occurring estrogenic hormone; a synthetic form is used to treat estrogen deficiency | Synonyms: oestriol |
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ethnocentric | (adjective) centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own | - |
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ethnocentrism | (noun) belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group | - |
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executrix | (noun) a woman executor | - |
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exocentric | (adjective) not fulfilling the same grammatical role of any of its constituents | - |
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