| abecedarian
|
alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) |
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| abecedarian
|
a novice learning the rudiments of some subject |
- |
| academician
|
someone elected to honorary membership in an academy |
- |
| academician
|
a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation |
schoolman |
| academician
|
an educator who works at a college or university |
academic,
faculty member |
| acanthocephalan
|
any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
spiny-headed worm |
| acanthopterygian
|
a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |
spiny-finned fish |
| acoustician
|
a physicist who specializes in acoustics |
- |
| actinian
|
any sea anemone or related animal |
actinia,
actiniarian |
| actiniarian
|
any sea anemone or related animal |
actinia,
actinian |
| actinomyxidian
|
of or relating to parasites of worms |
- |
| actinozoan
|
sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed |
anthozoan |
| adman
|
someone whose business is advertising |
advertiser,
advertizer |
| aeonian
|
continuing forever or indefinitely |
unceasing,
unending,
perpetual,
eonian,
eternal,
everlasting,
ageless |
| aeonian
|
of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era) |
eonian |
| aesculapian
|
of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art |
medical |
| aesthetician
|
a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.) |
esthetician |
| aesthetician
|
a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty |
esthetician |
| afghan
|
a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl |
- |
| afghan
|
a coat made of sheepskin |
sheepskin coat |
| agnathan
|
eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms |
jawless fish,
jawless vertebrate |
| agrarian
|
relating to farming or agriculture |
agricultural,
farming |
| aircraftman
|
a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force |
aircraftsman |
| aircraftsman
|
a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force |
aircraftman |
| aircrewman
|
a member of an aircrew |
- |
| airman
|
someone who operates an aircraft |
aeronaut,
aviator,
flier,
flyer |
| airwoman
|
a woman aviator |
aviatress,
aviatrix |
| alderman
|
a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) |
- |
| alsatian
|
breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind |
German police dog,
German shepherd,
German shepherd dog |
| ambrosian
|
extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant |
nectarous,
ambrosial |
| ambrosian
|
worthy of the gods |
ambrosial |
| ameban
|
pertaining to or resembling amoebae |
amebic,
amebous,
amoeban,
amoebic,
amoebous |
| amoeban
|
pertaining to or resembling amoebae |
ameban,
amebic,
amebous,
amoebic,
amoebous |
| amphibian
|
a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water |
amphibious vehicle |
| amphibian
|
an airplane designed to take off and land on water |
amphibious aircraft |
| amphibian
|
cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form |
- |
| amphibian
|
relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia |
amphibious |
| anatotitan
|
one of the largest and most famous duck-billed dinosaurs |
- |
| anchorman
|
a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute |
anchor,
anchorperson |
| annelidan
|
relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida |
annelid |
| antediluvian
|
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period |
antiquated,
archaic |
| antediluvian
|
of or relating to the period before the biblical flood |
antediluvial |
| antediluvian
|
any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge |
antediluvian patriarch |
| antediluvian
|
a very old person |
ancient |
| antemeridian
|
before noon |
- |
| anthozoan
|
sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed |
actinozoan |
| antiauthoritarian
|
opposed to authoritarianism |
- |
| antinomian
|
relating to or influenced by antinomianism |
- |
| antinomian
|
a follower of the doctrine of antinomianism |
- |
| antipodean
|
relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth |
antipodal |
| antiquarian
|
of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities |
- |
| antiquarian
|
of or relating to antiques or antiquities |
- |
| antiquarian
|
an expert or collector of antiquities |
antiquary,
archaist |
| anuran
|
relating to frogs and toads |
salientian,
batrachian |
| anuran
|
any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species |
frog,
salientian,
batrachian,
toad,
toad frog |
| apian
|
relating to or having the characteristics of bees |
- |
| apiarian
|
relating to bees or beekeeping |
- |
| aplacophoran
|
deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle |
solenogaster |
| apogean
|
relating to or characteristic of an apogee |
- |
| arachnidian
|
relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida |
spiderlike,
spiderly,
spidery,
arachnoid |
| araneidan
|
relating to or resembling a spider |
araneidal |
| arcadian
|
(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic |
pastoral,
bucolic |
| archaean
|
of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon |
archean |
| archdiocesan
|
of or relating to an archdiocese |
- |
| archean
|
of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon |
archaean |
| archosaurian
|
of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria |
- |
| archosaurian
|
extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts |
archosaur,
archosaurian reptile |
| arctan
|
the inverse function of the tangent; the angle that has a tangent equal to a given number |
inverse tangent,
arc tangent,
arctangent |
| arithmetician
|
someone who specializes in arithmetic |
- |
| artesian
|
(of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure |
- |
| arthropodan
|
of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda |
arthropodal,
arthropodous |
| artilleryman
|
a serviceman in the artillery |
machine gunner,
gunner,
cannoneer |
| artisan
|
a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft |
journeyman,
craftsman,
artificer |
| ascidian
|
minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves |
- |
| ashcan
|
a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected |
dustbin,
garbage can,
wastebin,
ash bin,
ash-bin,
ashbin,
trash barrel,
trash bin,
trash can |
| assemblyman
|
someone who is a member of a legislative assembly |
- |
| assemblywoman
|
a woman assemblyman |
- |
| astrakhan
|
the fur of young lambs |
- |
| aurorean
|
characteristic of the dawn |
auroral |
| authoritarian
|
characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty |
despotic,
dictatorial,
autocratic,
tyrannic,
tyrannical |
| authoritarian
|
expecting unquestioning obedience |
dictatorial,
overbearing |
| authoritarian
|
a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner |
dictator |
| avellan
|
pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts |
avellane |
| avian
|
pertaining to or characteristic of birds |
- |
| bacchanalian
|
used of riotously drunken merrymaking |
orgiastic,
carousing,
bacchanal,
bacchic |
| backwoodsman
|
a man who lives on the frontier |
mountain man,
frontiersman |
| baggageman
|
an attendant who takes care of baggage |
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| bagman
|
a salesman who travels to call on customers |
roadman,
commercial traveler,
commercial traveller,
traveling salesman,
travelling salesman |
| bagman
|
a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money |
- |
| balagan
|
a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian) |
- |
| balbriggan
|
a cotton knit fabric used for underwear |
- |
| ban
|
forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper) |
censor |
| ban
|
prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure |
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| ban
|
ban from a place of residence, as for punishment |
banish |
| ban
|
expel from a community or group |
banish,
cast out,
ostracise,
ostracize,
shun,
blackball |
| ban
|
a decree that prohibits something |
prohibition,
proscription |
| ban
|
100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova |
- |
| ban
|
100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania |
- |
| ban
|
an official prohibition or edict against something |
forbiddance,
banning,
forbidding |
| ban
|
a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. |
Hart,
dit,
hartley |
| bandsman
|
a player in a band (especially a military band) |
- |
| banian
|
East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks |
banyan,
Indian banyan,
East Indian fig tree,
banian tree,
banyan tree,
Ficus bengalensis |
| banian
|
a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India |
banyan |
| banyan
|
East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks |
banian,
Indian banyan,
East Indian fig tree,
banian tree,
banyan tree,
Ficus bengalensis |
| banyan
|
a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India |
banian |
| barbacan
|
a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) |
barbican |
| barbarian
|
without civilizing influences |
uncivilised,
uncivilized,
wild,
savage,
barbaric |
| barbarian
|
a member of an uncivilized people |
savage |
| barbarian
|
a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement |
peasant,
Goth,
churl,
boor,
tike,
tyke |
| barbican
|
a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) |
barbacan |
| bargeman
|
someone who operates a barge |
bargee,
lighterman |
| barman
|
an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar |
mixologist,
barkeep,
barkeeper,
bartender |
| basilican
|
of or relating to or resembling a basilica |
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| batman
|
an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer |
- |
| batrachian
|
relating to frogs and toads |
salientian,
anuran |
| batrachian
|
any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species |
frog,
salientian,
anuran,
toad,
toad frog |
| batsman
|
(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting |
batter,
hitter,
slugger |
| beadsman
|
a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another |
bedesman |
| bean
|
any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food |
edible bean |
| bean
|
any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans |
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| bean
|
any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods |
bean plant |
| bean
|
informal terms for a human head |
dome,
attic,
noggin,
noodle,
bonce |
| bean
|
hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball |
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| beautician
|
someone who works in a beauty parlor |
cosmetician |
| bedesman
|
a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another |
beadsman |
| bedpan
|
a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination |
- |
| beggarman
|
a man who is a beggar |
- |
| beggarwoman
|
a woman who is a beggar |
- |
| bellman
|
someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels |
bellboy,
bellhop |
| bemoan
|
regret strongly |
lament,
deplore,
bewail |
| benzofuran
|
a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins |
coumarone,
cumarone |
| bipartisan
|
supported by both sides |
bipartizan,
two-party,
two-way |
| bipartizan
|
supported by both sides |
bipartisan,
two-party,
two-way |
| boatman
|
someone who drives or rides in a boat |
boater,
waterman |
| bogbean
|
perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface |
Menyanthes trifoliata,
marsh trefoil,
water shamrock,
bog myrtle,
buckbean |
| bogeyman
|
an imaginary monster used to frighten children |
bugaboo,
bugbear,
booger,
boogeyman |
| bohemian
|
unconventional in especially appearance and behavior |
- |
| bohemian
|
a nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life |
- |
| bondman
|
a male bound to serve without wages |
bondsman |
| bondman
|
a male slave |
bondsman |