autoclave | (noun) a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | Synonyms: steriliser, sterilizer |
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(verb) subject to the action of an autoclave | - |
automotive | (adjective) of or relating to motor vehicles | - |
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(adjective) containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement | Synonyms: self-propelled, self-propelling |
avellan | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellane |
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avellane | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellan |
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avenge | (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: retaliate, revenge |
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avenged | (adjective) for which vengeance has been taken | - |
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avenger | (noun) someone who takes vengeance | Synonyms: retaliator |
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avens | (noun) any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers | - |
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aventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: camail, ventail |
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aventurine | (noun) a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals | Synonyms: sunstone |
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avenue | (noun) a line of approach | - |
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(noun) a wide street or thoroughfare | Synonyms: boulevard |
aver | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, avow, swan, swear, verify |
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(verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, say |
average | (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: ordinary |
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(adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: intermediate, medium |
(adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling |
(adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) | Synonyms: median |
(adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: mean |
(adjective) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution | Synonyms: modal |
(noun) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | Synonyms: norm |
(noun) an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual | - |
(noun) (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities | - |
(verb) compute the average of | Synonyms: average out |
(verb) achieve or reach on average | - |
(verb) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | Synonyms: average out |
averageness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: mediocrity |
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(noun) the state of being that is average; indicates normality but with connotations of mediocrity | - |
averment | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, asseveration |
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averse | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, indisposed, loath, loth |
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aversion | (noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: averting |
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(noun) a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: antipathy, distaste |
aversive | (adjective) tending to repel or dissuade | - |
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avert | (verb) turn away or aside | Synonyms: turn away |
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(verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
avertable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertible, avoidable, evitable |
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avertible | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avoidable, evitable |
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averting | (noun) the act of preventing something from occurring | - |
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(noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: aversion |
basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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beaver | (noun) large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges | - |
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(noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: castor |
(noun) a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face | - |
(noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper |
(noun) a full beard | - |
(noun) the soft brown fur of the beaver | Synonyms: beaver fur |
(verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
bedcover | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedspread, counterpane, spread |
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beehive | (noun) a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees | Synonyms: hive |
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(noun) any workplace where people are very busy | - |
(noun) a hairdo resembling a beehive | - |
(noun) a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree | Synonyms: hive |
behave | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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(verb) behave well or properly | Synonyms: comport |
behoove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behove |
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behove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behoove |
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believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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(verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
(verb) credit with veracity | - |
(verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
believer | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: worshiper, worshipper |
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(noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: truster |
beloved | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: darling, dear |
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(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
belvedere | (noun) a gazebo sited to command a fine view | - |
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(noun) densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn | Synonyms: Bassia scoparia, burning bush, fire-bush, fire bush, Kochia scoparia, summer cypress |
benedictive | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictory |
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bereave | (verb) deprive through death | - |
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bereaved | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing |
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(noun) a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved | Synonyms: bereaved person |
bereavement | (noun) state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one | Synonyms: mourning |
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bevel | (noun) a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size | Synonyms: bevel square |
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(noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees | Synonyms: cant, chamfer |
(verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: chamfer |
beverage | (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: drink, drinkable, potable |
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biconcave | (adjective) concave on both sides | Synonyms: concavo-concave |
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biconvex | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: convexo-convex, lenticular, lentiform |
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biodiversity | (noun) the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole) | - |
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bivalve | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalved |
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(noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypod |
bivalved | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalve |
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booklover | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: bibliophile, book lover |
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brainwave | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, insight |
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(noun) (neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: brain wave, cortical potential |
brave | (adjective) possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching | Synonyms: courageous |
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(adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
(adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: braw, gay |
(noun) people who are brave | - |
(noun) a North American Indian warrior | - |
(verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave out, endure, weather |
bravely | (adverb) in a courageous manner | Synonyms: courageously |
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braveness | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: bravery, courage, courageousness |
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bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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(noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
breve | (noun) a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound | - |
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brevet | (noun) a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay) | - |
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(verb) promote somebody by brevet, in the military | - |
burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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(noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
cabdriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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cadaver | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: clay, corpse, remains, stiff |
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cadaveric | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaverous |
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cadaverine | (noun) a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue | - |
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cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
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(adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
calculative | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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calefactive | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactory |
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calve | (verb) give birth to (a calf) | Synonyms: have young |
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(verb) release ice | Synonyms: break up |
cantilever | (noun) projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only | - |
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(verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
(verb) project as a cantilever | - |
capacitive | (adjective) of or relating to capacitance | - |
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captive | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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(adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: confined, imprisoned, jailed |
(noun) an animal that is confined | - |
(noun) a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | Synonyms: prisoner |
(noun) a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion | - |
caregiver | (noun) a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult | - |
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(noun) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability | Synonyms: health care provider, health professional, PCP, primary care provider |
carminative | (adjective) relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) | Synonyms: flatus-relieving |
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(noun) medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing | - |
carve | (verb) cut to pieces | Synonyms: cut up |
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(verb) form by carving | - |
(verb) engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface | Synonyms: chip at |
carved | (adjective) made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary) | Synonyms: carven |
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carvedilol | (noun) beta blocker that can reduce the progression of heart failure in individuals whose disease is not advanced | - |
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carven | (adjective) made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary) | Synonyms: carved |
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carver | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | Synonyms: sculptor, sculpturer, statue maker |
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(noun) someone who carves the meat | Synonyms: cutter |
(noun) makes decorative wooden panels | Synonyms: woodcarver |
causative | (adjective) producing an effect | - |
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cave | (noun) a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea | - |
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(verb) explore natural caves | Synonyms: spelunk |
(verb) hollow out as if making a cave or opening | Synonyms: undermine |
caveat | (noun) a warning against certain acts | Synonyms: caution |
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(noun) (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing | - |
caveman | (noun) someone who lives in a cave | Synonyms: cave dweller, cave man, troglodyte |
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cavern | (noun) a large cave or a large chamber in a cave | - |
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(noun) any large dark enclosed space | - |
(verb) hollow out as if making a cavern | Synonyms: cavern out |
cavernous | (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: erectile |
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(adjective) being or suggesting a cavern | - |
cavetto | (noun) a concave molding shaped like a quarter circle in cross section | - |
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champleve | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: cloisonne |
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changeover | (noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: conversion, transition |
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chemisorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemosorptive |
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chemoreceptive | (adjective) of or relating to chemoreceptors | - |
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chemosorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorptive |
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chive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chives, cive, schnittlaugh |
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chives | (noun) cylindrical leaves used fresh as a mild onion-flavored seasoning | - |
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(noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, cive, schnittlaugh |
chylifactive | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactory, chylific |
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circulative | (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulatory |
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circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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(verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
(verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |
circumvention | (noun) the act of evading by going around | - |
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circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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cive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, schnittlaugh |
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civet | (noun) cat-like mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes | Synonyms: civet cat |
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claver | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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cleave | (verb) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument | Synonyms: rive, split |
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(verb) make by cutting into | - |
(verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cling, cohere, stick |
cleaver | (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: chopper, meat cleaver |
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cleavers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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clever | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: cunning, ingenious |
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(adjective) mentally quick and resourceful | Synonyms: apt |
(adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, canny |
cleverly | (adverb) in a clever manner | Synonyms: smartly |
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cleverness | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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(noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: brightness, smartness |
(noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness |
clivers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, cleavers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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