enraptured | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, rapt, rapturous, rhapsodic |
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entablature | (noun) (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof | - |
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expenditure | (noun) the act of spending money for goods or services | Synonyms: expending |
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(noun) the act of consuming something | Synonyms: consumption, using up |
(noun) money paid out; an amount spent | Synonyms: outgo, outlay, spending |
feature | (noun) an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles | - |
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(noun) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin | Synonyms: lineament |
(noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: characteristic |
(noun) (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind | Synonyms: feature of speech |
(noun) the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater | Synonyms: feature film |
(noun) a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: feature article |
(verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: have |
(verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, sport |
featured | (adjective) made a feature or highlight; given prominence | - |
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(adjective) having facial features as specified; usually used in combination | - |
featureless | (adjective) lacking distinguishing characteristics or features | - |
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featurelessness | (noun) The state or condition of being without distinguishing features. | - |
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filature | (noun) a bobbin used in spinning silk into thread | - |
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fixture | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, mend, mending, repair, reparation |
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(noun) an object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household) | - |
(noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixity, secureness |
(noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: habitue, regular |
floricultural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving floriculture | - |
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floriculture | (noun) the cultivation of flowering plants | Synonyms: flower gardening |
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forfeiture | (noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeit, sacrifice |
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(noun) a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something | Synonyms: forfeit |
(noun) something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: forfeit |
fracture | (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: crack, cracking |
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(noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, faulting, geological fault, shift |
(noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone | Synonyms: break |
(verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: break |
(verb) become fractured | - |
(verb) violate or abuse | - |
(verb) break into pieces | - |
(verb) interrupt, break, or destroy | - |
furniture | (noun) furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy | Synonyms: article of furniture, piece of furniture |
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future | (adjective) yet to be or coming | - |
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(adjective) a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened | - |
(adjective) (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving | Synonyms: next, succeeding |
(adjective) effective in or looking toward the future | - |
(noun) bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date | - |
(noun) a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future | Synonyms: future tense |
(noun) the time yet to come | Synonyms: futurity, hereafter, time to come |
futureless | (adjective) having no prospect or hope of a future | - |
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futurism | (noun) the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future | - |
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(noun) an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age | - |
futurist | (adjective) of or relating to futurism | Synonyms: futuristic |
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(noun) someone who predicts the future | Synonyms: fantast |
(noun) a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) will be fulfilled in the future | - |
futuristic | (adjective) of or relating to futurism | Synonyms: futurist |
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futuristics | (noun) the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions | Synonyms: futurology |
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futurity | (noun) the quality of being in or of the future | - |
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(noun) the time yet to come | Synonyms: future, hereafter, time to come |
futurology | (noun) the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions | Synonyms: futuristics |
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gestural | (adjective) being other than verbal communication | Synonyms: nonverbal |
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(adjective) used of the language of the deaf | Synonyms: sign-language, sign, signed |
gesture | (noun) motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling | - |
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(noun) something done as an indication of intention | - |
(noun) the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals | Synonyms: motion |
(verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesticulate, motion |
guttural | (adjective) relating to or articulated in the throat | - |
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(adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: croaky |
(noun) a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat | Synonyms: guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant |
gutturally | (adverb) in a guttural manner | - |
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haematocyturia | (noun) the presence of red blood cells in the urine | Synonyms: hematocyturia |
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haematuria | (noun) the presence of blood in the urine; often a symptom of urinary tract disease | Synonyms: hematuria |
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hematocyturia | (noun) the presence of red blood cells in the urine | Synonyms: haematocyturia |
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hematuria | (noun) the presence of blood in the urine; often a symptom of urinary tract disease | Synonyms: haematuria |
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horticultural | (adjective) of or relating to the cultivation of plants | - |
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horticulturally | (adverb) by means of horticulture | - |
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horticulture | (noun) the cultivation of plants | Synonyms: gardening |
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horticulturist | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: plantsman |
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immature | (adjective) not yet mature | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of a lack of maturity | - |
(adjective) (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth | Synonyms: young |
(adjective) (of birds) not yet having developed feathers | Synonyms: unfledged |
(adjective) not fully developed or mature; not ripe | Synonyms: green, unripe, unripened |
immaturely | (adverb) in an immature manner | Synonyms: jejunely |
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immatureness | (noun) not having reached maturity | Synonyms: immaturity |
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immaturity | (noun) not having reached maturity | Synonyms: immatureness |
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imperturbability | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbableness |
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imperturbable | (adjective) not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure | Synonyms: unflappable |
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imperturbableness | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbability |
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imposture | (noun) pretending to be another person | Synonyms: impersonation |
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imprimatur | (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
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incurvature | (noun) a shape that curves or bends inward | Synonyms: concave shape, concavity, incurvation |
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indenture | (noun) a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term | - |
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(noun) formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt | - |
(noun) the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line | Synonyms: indent, indentation, indention |
(noun) a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline) | Synonyms: indentation |
(verb) bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant | Synonyms: indent |
indentured | (adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: apprenticed, articled, bound |
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infrastructure | (noun) the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area | Synonyms: base |
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(noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: substructure |
intermixture | (noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: admixture, commixture, mix, mixing, mixture |
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(noun) an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base | Synonyms: admixture |
(noun) any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients | Synonyms: concoction, mixture |
investiture | (noun) the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | Synonyms: investment |
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(noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization |
jointure | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, unification, union, uniting |
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(noun) (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower | Synonyms: legal jointure |
judicature | (noun) the act of meting out justice according to the law | Synonyms: administration |
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(noun) the position of judge | Synonyms: judgeship |
(noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicatory, judicial system, judiciary |
(noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: court, tribunal |
juncture | (noun) an event that occurs at a critical time | Synonyms: occasion |
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(noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: articulation, join, joint, junction |
(noun) a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made | Synonyms: critical point, crossroads |
lecture | (noun) teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) | Synonyms: lecturing |
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(noun) a speech that is open to the public | Synonyms: public lecture, talk |
(noun) a lengthy rebuke | Synonyms: speech, talking to |
(verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
(verb) deliver a lecture or talk | Synonyms: talk |
lecturer | (noun) someone who lectures professionally | - |
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(noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lector, reader |
lectureship | (noun) the post of lecturer | - |
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lecturing | (noun) teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) | Synonyms: lecture |
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legislature | (noun) persons who make or amend or repeal laws | Synonyms: general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body |
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ligature | (noun) the act of tying or binding things together | Synonyms: tying |
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(noun) something used to tie or bind | Synonyms: binder |
(noun) thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood) | - |
(noun) a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone | - |
(noun) (music) a group of notes connected by a slur | - |
(noun) character consisting of two or more letters combined into one | - |
lilyturf | (noun) Asiatic perennial tufted herb with grasslike evergreen foliage and clusters of dark mauve grapelike flowers; grown as ground cover | Synonyms: lily turf, Liriope muscari |
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literature | (noun) the profession or art of a writer | - |
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(noun) the humanistic study of a body of literature | Synonyms: lit |
(noun) creative writing of recognized artistic value | - |
(noun) published writings in a particular style on a particular subject | - |
liturgical | (adjective) of or relating to or in accord with liturgy | - |
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liturgics | (noun) the study of liturgies | Synonyms: liturgiology |
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liturgiology | (noun) the study of liturgies | Synonyms: liturgics |
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liturgist | (noun) an authority on liturgies | - |
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liturgy | (noun) a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship | - |
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magistrature | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistracy |
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manufacture | (noun) the organized action of making of goods and services for sale | Synonyms: industry |
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(noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: fabrication, manufacturing |
(verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, fabricate |
(verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, invent, make up |
(verb) create or produce in a mechanical way | - |
(verb) produce naturally | - |
manufactured | (adjective) produced in a large-scale industrial operation | - |
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manufacturer | (noun) a business engaged in manufacturing some product | Synonyms: maker, manufacturing business |
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(noun) someone who manufactures something | Synonyms: producer |
manufacturing | (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: fabrication, manufacture |
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masturbate | (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, she-bop, wank |
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(verb) stimulate sexually | - |
masturbation | (noun) manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure | Synonyms: onanism |
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masturbator | (noun) a person who practices masturbation | Synonyms: onanist |
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maturate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, suppurate |
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(verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, mature |
(verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, mature, senesce |
maturation | (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
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(noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturement, ripening |
(noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: festering, suppuration |
maturational | (adjective) relating to or involved in maturation | - |
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mature | (adjective) having reached full natural growth or development | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of maturity | - |
(adjective) (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination | Synonyms: fledged |
(adjective) fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used | Synonyms: ripe |
(adjective) fully considered and perfected | Synonyms: matured |
(verb) cause to ripen and discharge pus | Synonyms: suppurate |
(verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, maturate |
(verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, senesce |
(verb) become due for repayment | - |
(verb) cause to ripen or develop fully | Synonyms: ripen |
(verb) develop and work out fully in one's mind | - |
matured | (adjective) fully considered and perfected | Synonyms: mature |
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(adjective) fully ripe; at the height of bloom | Synonyms: full-blown |
maturely | (adverb) in a mature manner | - |
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maturement | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, ripening |
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matureness | (noun) state of being mature; full development | Synonyms: maturity |
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maturity | (noun) state of being mature; full development | Synonyms: matureness |
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(noun) the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed | Synonyms: adulthood |
(noun) the date on which an obligation must be repaid | Synonyms: due date, maturity date |
micturate | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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micturition | (noun) the discharge of urine | Synonyms: urination |
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miniature | (adjective) being on a very small scale | - |
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(noun) a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size | Synonyms: toy |
(noun) painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) | Synonyms: illumination |
miniaturisation | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturization |
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miniaturise | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturize |
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miniaturist | (noun) someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail | - |
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miniaturization | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturisation |
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miniaturize | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturise |
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misadventure | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: mischance, mishap |
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mixture | (noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: admixture, commixture, intermixture, mix, mixing |
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(noun) an event that combines things in a mixture | Synonyms: mix |
(noun) any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients | Synonyms: concoction, intermixture |
(noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
(noun) (chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding) | - |
moisture | (noun) wetness caused by water | Synonyms: wet |
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moisturise | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturize |
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moisturize | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturise |
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monoculture | (noun) the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country) | - |
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monounsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) saturated except for one multiple bond | - |
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multicultural | (adjective) of or relating to or including several cultures | - |
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multiculturalism | (noun) the doctrine that several different cultures (rather than one national culture) can coexist peacefully and equitably in a single country | - |
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musculature | (noun) the muscular system of an organism | Synonyms: muscle system, muscular structure |
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