antiparticle | (noun) a particle that has the same mass as another particle but has opposite values for its other properties; interaction of a particle and its antiparticle results in annihilation and the production of radiant energy | - |
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appendicle | (noun) a small appendage | - |
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article | (noun) one of a class of artifacts | - |
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(noun) nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication | - |
(noun) (grammar) a determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase | - |
(noun) a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will) | Synonyms: clause |
(verb) bind by a contract; especially for a training period | - |
auricle | (noun) a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart | Synonyms: atrial auricle, auricula atrii |
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(noun) the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear | Synonyms: ear, pinna |
barnacle | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: cirriped, cirripede |
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(noun) European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north | Synonyms: barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis |
bicycle | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bike, cycle, wheel |
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(verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bike, cycle, pedal, wheel |
binnacle | (noun) a nonmagnetic housing for a ship's compass (usually in front of the helm) | - |
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boucle | (noun) a fabric of uneven yarn that has an uneven knobby effect | - |
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calycle | (noun) a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) | Synonyms: caliculus, calyculus |
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(noun) a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus | Synonyms: calyculus, epicalyx, false calyx |
canticle | (noun) a hymn derived from the Bible | - |
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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 | - |
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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chicle | (noun) gum-like substance from the sapodilla | Synonyms: chicle gum |
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chronicle | (noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: account, history, story |
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(verb) record in chronological order; make a historical record | - |
circle | (noun) movement once around a course | Synonyms: circuit, lap |
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(noun) any circular or rotating mechanism | Synonyms: round |
(noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: rotary, roundabout, traffic circle |
(noun) a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra | Synonyms: dress circle |
(noun) street names for flunitrazepam | Synonyms: forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roach, roofy, rope, rophy |
(noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: band, lot, set |
(noun) ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point | - |
(noun) something approximating the shape of a circle | - |
(verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: encircle |
(verb) move in a circular path above (someone or something) | - |
(verb) travel around something | - |
clavicle | (noun) bone linking the scapula and sternum | Synonyms: collarbone |
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conventicle | (noun) a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) | Synonyms: meetinghouse |
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(noun) a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship | - |
coracle | (noun) a small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame; still used in some parts of Great Britain | - |
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corpuscle | (noun) either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets | Synonyms: blood cell, blood corpuscle |
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(noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, molecule, mote, particle, speck |
crepuscle | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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cubicle | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, kiosk, stall |
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(noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, carrell, stall |
(noun) small room in which a monk or nun lives | Synonyms: cell |
cuticle | (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, shell, shield |
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(noun) the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Synonyms: epidermis |
(noun) the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail | - |
cycle | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, wheel |
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(noun) a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon | Synonyms: oscillation |
(noun) a periodically repeated sequence of events | - |
(noun) a series of poems or songs on the same theme | - |
(noun) an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs | Synonyms: rhythm, round |
(noun) the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz) | Synonyms: cps, cycle per second, cycles/second, hertz, Hz |
(verb) recur in repeating sequences | - |
(verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: motorbike, motorcycle |
(verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, pedal, wheel |
(verb) pass through a cycle | - |
(verb) cause to go through a recurring sequence | - |
debacle | (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
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(noun) a sudden and violent collapse | Synonyms: fiasco |
(noun) flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer | - |
denticle | (noun) small pointed ridge on the exoskeleton of an arthropod | - |
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encircle | (verb) bind with something round or circular | Synonyms: gird |
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(verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: circle |
epicycle | (noun) a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid | - |
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exercycle | (noun) an exercise device resembling a stationary bike | Synonyms: exercise bike |
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fascicle | (noun) a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) | Synonyms: fasciculus, fiber bundle, fibre bundle |
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(noun) an installment of a printed work | Synonyms: fascicule |
follicle | (noun) any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity | - |
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funicle | (noun) the stalk of a plant ovule or seed | Synonyms: funiculus |
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furuncle | (noun) a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus | Synonyms: boil |
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gigacycle | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle per second, gigahertz |
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granduncle | (noun) an uncle of your father or mother | Synonyms: great-uncle |
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hemicycle | (noun) a plane figure with the shape of half a circle | Synonyms: semicircle |
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heterocycle | (noun) a ring of atoms of more than one kind; especially a ring of carbon atoms containing at least one atom that is not carbon | Synonyms: heterocyclic ring |
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(noun) a compound containing a heterocyclic ring | Synonyms: heterocyclic, heterocyclic compound |
icicle | (noun) ice resembling a pendent spear, formed by the freezing of dripping water | - |
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kilocycle | (noun) one thousand periods per second | Synonyms: kc, kHz, kilocycle per second, kilohertz |
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manacle | (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff, handlock |
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(verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff |
megacycle | (noun) one million periods per second | Synonyms: Mc, megacycle per second, megahertz, MHz |
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miracle | (noun) any amazing or wonderful occurrence | - |
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(noun) a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent | - |
monocle | (noun) lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles | Synonyms: eyeglass |
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monocycle | (noun) a vehicle with a single wheel that is driven by pedals | Synonyms: unicycle |
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motorcycle | (noun) a motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame | Synonyms: bike |
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(verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: cycle, motorbike |
muscle | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscularity, sinew |
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(noun) authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way) | - |
(noun) one of the contractile organs of the body | Synonyms: musculus |
(noun) animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells | Synonyms: muscular tissue |
(noun) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard | Synonyms: muscleman |
(verb) make one's way by force | - |
obstacle | (noun) an obstruction that stands in the way (and must be removed or surmounted or circumvented) | - |
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(noun) something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted | Synonyms: obstruction |
oracle | (noun) a shrine where an oracular god is consulted | - |
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(noun) a prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible | - |
(noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: prophesier, prophet, seer, vaticinator |
ossicle | (noun) a small bone; especially one in the middle ear | Synonyms: bonelet, ossiculum |
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panicle | (noun) compound raceme or branched cluster of flowers | - |
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papulovesicle | (noun) a papule that changes into a blister | Synonyms: vesicopapule |
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particle | (noun) a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs | - |
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(noun) a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions | Synonyms: subatomic particle |
(noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, corpuscle, molecule, mote, speck |
pedicle | (noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle | Synonyms: pedicel |
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peduncle | (noun) a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain | Synonyms: cerebral peduncle |
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(noun) stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower | - |
(noun) the thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body | - |
pellicle | (noun) thin protective membrane in some protozoa | - |
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pentacle | (noun) a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon | Synonyms: pentagram, pentangle |
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pinnacle | (noun) (architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress or tower | - |
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(noun) a lofty peak | - |
(noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
(verb) raise on or as if on a pinnacle | - |
(verb) surmount with a pinnacle | - |
pinocle | (noun) a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | Synonyms: bezique, penuchle, pinochle |
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popsicle | (noun) ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick | Synonyms: ice lolly, lollipop, lolly |
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quasiparticle | (noun) a quantum of energy (in a crystal lattice or other system) that has position and momentum and can in some respects be regarded as a particle | - |
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radicle | (noun) (anatomy) a small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve) | - |
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receptacle | (noun) a container that is used to put or keep things in | - |
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(noun) an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert | - |
(noun) enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts | - |
recycle | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: reprocess, reuse |
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(verb) cause to repeat a cycle | - |
reticle | (noun) a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument | Synonyms: graticule, reticule |
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sanicle | (noun) a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers | Synonyms: snakeroot |
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semicircle | (noun) a plane figure with the shape of half a circle | Synonyms: hemicycle |
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silicle | (noun) short broad silique occurring in some cruciferous plants | - |
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socle | (noun) a plain plinth that supports a wall | - |
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spectacle | (noun) a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself | - |
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(noun) an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale | - |
(noun) something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight) | - |
spiracle | (noun) a breathing orifice | - |
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tabernacle | (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: synagogue, temple |
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tentacle | (noun) any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion | - |
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(noun) something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold | - |
testicle | (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testis |
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treacle | (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, mush, slop |
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(noun) a pale cane syrup | Synonyms: golden syrup |
tricycle | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: trike, velocipede |
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tubercle | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tuberosity |
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(noun) small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant | Synonyms: nodule |
(noun) a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis | - |
uncle | (noun) the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt | - |
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(noun) a source of help and advice and encouragement | - |
unicycle | (noun) a vehicle with a single wheel that is driven by pedals | Synonyms: monocycle |
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(verb) ride a unicycle | - |
upcycle | (verb) To transform an old product into a newer and more expensive form with a different use | - |
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utricle | (noun) a small pouch into which the semicircular canals open | Synonyms: utriculus |
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vehicle | (noun) a conveyance that transports people or objects | - |
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(noun) a medium for the expression or achievement of something | - |
(noun) any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another | Synonyms: fomite |
(noun) any substance that facilitates the use of a drug or pigment or other material that is mixed with it | - |
ventricle | (noun) a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries | Synonyms: heart ventricle |
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(noun) one of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid | - |
versicle | (noun) a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation | - |
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vesicle | (noun) a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid) | Synonyms: cyst |
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