acupuncture | (noun) treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin | Synonyms: stylostixis |
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adjunct | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: assistant |
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(adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
(noun) a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence | - |
(noun) something added to another thing but not an essential part of it | - |
(noun) a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another | - |
adjunction | (noun) an act of joining or adjoining things | Synonyms: junction |
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adjunctive | (adjective) joining; forming an adjunct | - |
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announce | (verb) make known; make an announcement | Synonyms: denote |
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(verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: annunciate, foretell, harbinger, herald |
(verb) announce publicly or officially | Synonyms: declare |
(verb) give the names of | - |
announced | (adjective) declared publicly; made widely known | Synonyms: proclaimed |
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announcement | (noun) a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen | Synonyms: promulgation |
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(noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: annunciation, declaration, proclamation |
announcer | (noun) reads news, commercials on radio or television | - |
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(noun) someone who proclaims a message publicly | - |
annunciate | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, foretell, harbinger, herald |
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annunciation | (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, declaration, proclamation |
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annunciator | (noun) an indicator that announces which electrical circuit has been active (as on a telephone switchboard) | - |
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annunciatory | (adjective) relating to the act of announcing or being announced | - |
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avuncular | (adjective) being or relating to an uncle | - |
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(adjective) resembling an uncle in kindness or indulgence | - |
bounce | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bound, leap, leaping, saltation, spring |
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(noun) the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | Synonyms: bounciness |
(noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bouncing |
(verb) eject from the premises | - |
(verb) hit something so that it bounces | - |
(verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
(verb) leap suddenly | - |
(verb) move up and down repeatedly | Synonyms: jounce |
(verb) come back after being refused | - |
(verb) refuse to accept and send back | - |
bouncer | (noun) a person whose duty is to throw troublemakers out of a bar or public meeting | Synonyms: chucker-out |
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bounciness | (noun) the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | Synonyms: bounce |
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bouncing | (adjective) vigorously healthy | - |
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(adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy |
(noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bounce |
bouncy | (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: live, lively, resilient, springy |
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(adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncing, peppy, spirited, zippy |
brunch | (noun) combination of breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning | - |
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(verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
bunce | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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bunch | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: clump, cluster, clustering |
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(noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: crew, crowd, gang |
(noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: caboodle, lot |
(verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bundle, clump, cluster |
(verb) form into a bunch | Synonyms: bunch together, bunch up |
bunchberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: Cornus canadensis, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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bunchgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States | Synonyms: bunch grass |
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bunchy | (adjective) occurring close together in bunches or clusters | - |
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bunco | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting |
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(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
buncombe | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot |
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buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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carbuncle | (noun) an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus | - |
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(noun) deep-red cabochon garnet cut without facets | - |
carbuncled | (adjective) set with carbuncles | - |
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(adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncular |
carbuncular | (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncled |
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caruncle | (noun) an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds | Synonyms: caruncula |
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caruncula | (noun) an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds | Synonyms: caruncle |
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caruncular | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculous |
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carunculate | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculated |
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carunculated | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculate |
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carunculous | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: caruncular |
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clunch | (noun) stiff clay | - |
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compunction | (noun) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) | Synonyms: remorse, self-reproach |
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conjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals of a second | - |
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(adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
(adjective) bound in close association | - |
conjunction | (noun) something that joins or connects | Synonyms: junction |
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(noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence |
(noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunctive, connective, continuative |
(noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: alignment |
(noun) the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction | - |
(noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, junction |
conjunctiva | (noun) a transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid | - |
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conjunctival | (adjective) of or relating to the conjunctiva | - |
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conjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to connect | - |
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(adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, cooperative, united |
(noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
conjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: pinkeye |
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conjuncture | (noun) a critical combination of events or circumstances | - |
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council | (noun) a meeting of people for consultation | - |
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(noun) a body serving in an administrative capacity | - |
(noun) (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine | - |
councillor | (noun) a member of a council | Synonyms: council member |
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councillorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councilorship |
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councilman | (noun) a man who is a council member | - |
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councilorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councillorship |
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councilwoman | (noun) a woman who is a council member | - |
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counterpunch | (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) | Synonyms: counter, parry |
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cowpuncher | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, puncher |
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craunch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, crunch, grind |
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crunch | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: compaction, crush |
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(noun) the sound of something crunching | - |
(noun) a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources) | - |
(verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, grind, mash |
(verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, scranch, scraunch |
(verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: munch |
(verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, grind |
cunctation | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: procrastination, shillyshally |
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cunctator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: postponer, procrastinator |
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defunct | (adjective) having ceased to exist or live | - |
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(adjective) no longer in force or use; inactive | - |
defunctness | (noun) no longer in existence | Synonyms: extinction |
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denounce | (verb) speak out against | - |
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(verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
(verb) announce the termination of, as of treaties | - |
(verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: brand, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
denouncement | (noun) a public act of denouncing | Synonyms: denunciation |
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denunciation | (noun) a public act of denouncing | Synonyms: denouncement |
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denunciative | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciatory |
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denunciatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciative |
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disfunction | (noun) (medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group | Synonyms: dysfunction |
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disjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second | - |
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(adjective) used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations | - |
(adjective) having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects | - |
(adjective) marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements | Synonyms: isolated |
disjunction | (noun) the act of breaking a connection | Synonyms: disconnection |
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(noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjuncture |
disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
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disjuncture | (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction |
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dracunculiasis | (noun) a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin | Synonyms: Guinea worm, Guinea worm disease |
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dunce | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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duncical | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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duncish | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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dysfunction | (noun) (medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group | Synonyms: disfunction |
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dysfunctional | (adjective) impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ | - |
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(adjective) (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose | Synonyms: nonadaptive |
dysfunctionality | (noun) The condition of functioning incorrectly or abnormally. | - |
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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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enounce | (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out |
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enunciate | (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: articulate, vocalise, vocalize |
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(verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, pronounce, say, sound out |
enunciation | (noun) the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience | Synonyms: diction |
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expunction | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: erasure, expunging |
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flounce | (noun) the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions | - |
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(noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: frill, furbelow, ruffle |
(verb) walk emphatically | - |
fluidounce | (noun) a United States unit of capacity or volume equal to 1.804 cubic inches | Synonyms: fluid ounce |
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(noun) a British imperial unit of capacity or volume (liquid or dry) equal to 8 fluid drams or 28.416 cubic centimeters (1.734 cubic inches) | Synonyms: fluid ounce |
function | (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: office, part, role |
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(noun) what something is used for | Synonyms: purpose, role, use |
(noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: procedure, routine, subprogram, subroutine |
(noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people | Synonyms: affair, occasion, social affair, social function, social gathering, social occasion |
(noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony | - |
(noun) (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function) | Synonyms: map, mapping, mathematical function, single-valued function |
(noun) a relation such that one thing is dependent on another | - |
(verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: officiate |
(verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: go, operate, run, work |
(verb) serve a purpose, role, or function | Synonyms: serve |
functional | (adjective) designed for or capable of a particular function or use | - |
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(adjective) involving or affecting function rather than physiology | - |
(adjective) relating to or based on function especially as opposed to structure | - |
(adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: operative, running, working |
(adjective) designed for or adapted to a function or use | - |
(adjective) fit or ready for use or service | Synonyms: operable, operational, usable, useable |
functionalism | (noun) a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment | - |
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(noun) any doctrine that stresses utility or purpose | - |
functionalist | (noun) an adherent of functionalism | - |
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functionality | (noun) capable of serving a purpose well | - |
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functionally | (adverb) with respect to function | - |
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functionary | (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: official |
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functioning | (adjective) performing or able to perform its regular function | - |
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(noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: operation, performance |
furuncle | (noun) a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus | Synonyms: boil |
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furunculosis | (noun) acute skin disease characterized by the presence of many furuncles | - |
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granduncle | (noun) an uncle of your father or mother | Synonyms: great-uncle |
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guncotton | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, nitrocellulose, nitrocotton |
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haunch | (noun) the loin and leg of a quadruped | - |
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(noun) the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings | - |
hauncher | (noun) a machine for making shaped cuts in the end or along the edge of a board. | Synonyms: haunching machine |
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homunculus | (noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: manikin, mannikin |
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(noun) a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell | - |
hunch | (noun) the act of bending yourself into a humped position | - |
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(noun) an impression that something might be the case | Synonyms: intuition, suspicion |
(verb) round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward | Synonyms: hump, hunch forward, hunch over |
hunchback | (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: crookback, humpback |
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(noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: humpback, kyphosis |