absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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accentual | (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to accent or stress | - |
accentuate | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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(verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accent, stress |
accentuation | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, emphasizing |
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(noun) the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance | - |
accrual | (noun) the act of accumulating | Synonyms: accruement, accumulation |
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acquaint | (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: introduce, present |
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(verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: familiarise, familiarize |
(verb) inform | - |
acquaintance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: conversance, conversancy, familiarity |
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(noun) a person with whom you are acquainted | Synonyms: friend |
(noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintanceship |
acquaintanceship | (noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintance |
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acquainted | (adjective) having fair knowledge of | - |
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actual | (adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: existent |
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(adjective) being or existing at the present moment | - |
(adjective) taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated | - |
(adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: genuine, literal, real |
(adjective) existing in act or fact | Synonyms: factual |
actualisation | (noun) making real or giving the appearance of reality | Synonyms: actualization, realisation, realization |
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actualise | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualize |
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(verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualize, realise, realize, substantiate |
actuality | (noun) the state of actually existing objectively | - |
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actualization | (noun) making real or giving the appearance of reality | Synonyms: actualisation, realisation, realization |
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actualize | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualise |
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(verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, realise, realize, substantiate |
actually | (adverb) used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly | Synonyms: in reality |
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(adverb) in actual fact | Synonyms: really |
(adverb) as a sentence modifier to add slight emphasis; as a modifier to add slight emphasis | - |
(adverb) at present | - |
actuarial | (adjective) of or relating to the work of an actuary | - |
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actuary | (noun) someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) | Synonyms: statistician |
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actuate | (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
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(verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: incite, motivate, move, prompt, propel |
actuated | (adjective) moved to action | - |
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actuating | (adjective) causing motion or action or change | Synonyms: activating |
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actuation | (noun) the act of propelling | Synonyms: propulsion |
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actuator | (noun) a mechanism that puts something into automatic action | - |
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acuate | (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acute, needlelike, sharp |
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adequacy | (noun) the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: | Synonyms: adequateness |
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(noun) the quality of being sufficient for the end in view | Synonyms: sufficiency |
adequate | (adjective) having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task | Synonyms: equal |
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(adjective) about average; acceptable | Synonyms: fair to middling, passable, tolerable |
(adjective) sufficient for the purpose | Synonyms: enough |
adequately | (adverb) in an adequate manner or to an adequate degree | - |
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adequateness | (noun) the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: | Synonyms: adequacy |
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agua | (noun) largest known toad species; native to Central America; valuable destroyer of insect pests | Synonyms: agua toad, Bufo marinus |
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aguacate | (noun) a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed | Synonyms: alligator pear, avocado, avocado pear |
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aliquant | (noun) an integer that is not an exact divisor of some quantity | Synonyms: aliquant part |
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annual | (adjective) completing its life cycle within a year | Synonyms: one-year |
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(adjective) occurring or payable every year | Synonyms: yearly |
(noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: yearbook, yearly |
(noun) (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year | - |
annually | (adverb) without missing a year | Synonyms: each year, every year, yearly |
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(adverb) by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received) | Synonyms: each year, p.a., per annum, per year |
annualry | (noun) the third finger (especially of the left hand) | Synonyms: ring finger |
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antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
(noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquary, archaist |
antiquark | (noun) the antiparticle of a quark | - |
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antiquary | (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquarian, archaist |
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antiquate | (verb) give an antique appearance to | Synonyms: antique |
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(verb) make obsolete or old-fashioned | - |
antiquated | (adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antediluvian, archaic |
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antiquatedness | (noun) The state or quality of being outmoded or discredited by reason of age, of being out of style or fashion. | - |
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aqua | (noun) a shade of blue tinged with green | Synonyms: aquamarine, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, turquoise |
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aquacultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquicultural, hydroponic |
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aquaculture | (noun) rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food | - |
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aqualung | (noun) a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus | Synonyms: Aqua-Lung, scuba |
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aquamarine | (noun) a shade of blue tinged with green | Synonyms: aqua, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, turquoise |
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(noun) a transparent variety of beryl that is blue green in color | - |
aquanaut | (noun) an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder | Synonyms: skin-diver |
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(noun) a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research | Synonyms: oceanaut |
aquaphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of drowning | - |
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aquaphobic | (adjective) abnormally afraid of water | Synonyms: hydrophobic |
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aquaplane | (noun) a board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water | - |
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(verb) ride on an aquaplane | - |
(verb) rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road | - |
aquarium | (noun) a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals | Synonyms: fish tank, marine museum |
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aquatic | (adjective) operating or living or growing in water | - |
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(adjective) relating to or consisting of or being in water | - |
(noun) a plant that lives in or on water | - |
aquatics | (noun) sports that involve bodies of water | Synonyms: water sport |
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aquatint | (noun) a method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color | - |
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(noun) an etching made by a process that makes it resemble a water color | - |
(verb) etch in aquatint | - |
aquavit | (noun) Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds | Synonyms: akvavit |
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arcuate | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, bowed |
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arguable | (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: debatable, disputable, moot |
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(adjective) capable of being supported by argument | - |
arguably | (adverb) as can be shown by argument | - |
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armguard | (noun) a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports | Synonyms: bracer |
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artefactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artifactual |
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artifactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artefactual |
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asexual | (adjective) not having or involving sex | Synonyms: nonsexual |
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asexuality | (noun) having no evident sex or sex organs | Synonyms: sexlessness |
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asexually | (adverb) in an asexual manner | - |
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aspectual | (adjective) of or belonging to an aspect (as an aspect of the verb) | - |
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assuage | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, palliate, relieve |
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(verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, quench, slake |
(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
assuagement | (noun) the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced | Synonyms: alleviation, relief |
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assuasive | (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: soothing |
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attenuate | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuated, faded, weakened |
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(verb) become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude | - |
(verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: rarefy |
attenuated | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, faded, weakened |
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(adjective) of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion | - |
attenuation | (noun) the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density | - |
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(noun) weakening in force or intensity | Synonyms: fading |
attenuator | (noun) an electrical device for attenuating the strength of an electrical signal | - |
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audiovisual | (adjective) involving both hearing and seeing (usually relating to teaching aids) | - |
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(noun) materials using sight or sound to present information | Synonyms: audiovisual aid |
biannual | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biyearly, half-yearly, semiannual |
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biannually | (adverb) twice a year | - |
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bicornuate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuous |
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bilingual | (adjective) using or knowing two languages | - |
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(noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingualist |
bilingualism | (noun) the ability to speak two languages colloquially | - |
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bilingualist | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingual |
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bilingually | (adverb) in a bilingual manner | - |
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bimanual | (adjective) requiring two hands or designed for two people | Synonyms: two-handed |
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biquadrate | (noun) an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadratic, fourth power, quartic |
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biquadratic | (adjective) involving the fourth and no higher power of a quantity or degree | - |
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(noun) a polynomial of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadratic polynomial, quartic polynomial |
(noun) an equation of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadratic equation |
(noun) an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadrate, fourth power, quartic |
bisexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to both sexes | - |
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(adjective) having an ambiguous sexual identity | Synonyms: epicene |
(noun) a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes | Synonyms: bisexual person |
bisexuality | (noun) sexual activity with both men and women | - |
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(noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, hermaphroditism |
bivouac | (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: camp, cantonment, encampment |
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(noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
(verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: camp, camp out, encamp, tent |
bivouacking | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: camping, encampment, tenting |
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blackguard | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: bounder, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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(verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, clapperclaw, shout |
(verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast |
blackguardly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: rascally, roguish, scoundrelly |
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bodyguard | (noun) a group of men who escort and protect some important person | - |
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(noun) someone who escorts and protects a prominent person | Synonyms: escort |
casual | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: cursory, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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(adjective) not showing effort or strain | Synonyms: effortless |
(adjective) occurring on a temporary or irregular basis | Synonyms: occasional |
(adjective) marked by blithe unconcern | Synonyms: insouciant, nonchalant |
(adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: daily, everyday |
(adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance | Synonyms: chance |
(adjective) natural and unstudied | Synonyms: free-and-easy |
(adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: fooling |
(adjective) without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand | - |
casually | (adverb) in an unconcerned manner | Synonyms: nonchalantly |
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(adverb) not methodically or according to plan | - |
casualness | (noun) a casual manner | Synonyms: familiarity |
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(noun) The state of coming without regularity; of being occasional or incidental. | - |
casualty | (noun) a decrease of military personnel or equipment | - |
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(noun) an accident that causes someone to die | Synonyms: fatal accident |
(noun) someone injured or killed in an accident | Synonyms: injured party |
(noun) someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement | - |
casuarina | (noun) any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves; some yield heavy hardwood | - |
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chinquapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chincapin, chinkapin |
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(noun) shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts | Synonyms: Allegheny chinkapin, Castanea pumila, dwarf chestnut, eastern chinquapin |
(noun) shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States | Synonyms: Castanea ozarkensis, Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin |
clinquant | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: tinseled, tinselly |
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coastguard | (noun) a military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters | - |
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coastguardsman | (noun) a member of a coastguard | - |
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coequal | (adjective) having the same standing before the law | - |
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conceptual | (adjective) being or characterized by concepts or their formation | - |
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