agenda | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: docket, schedule |
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(noun) a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting) | Synonyms: agendum, order of business |
allamanda | (noun) a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes | - |
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anaconda | (noun) large arboreal boa of tropical South America | Synonyms: Eunectes murinus |
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andromeda | (noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Andromeda having leathery leaves and clusters of small flowers | - |
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(noun) broad-leaved evergreen Asiatic shrub with glossy leaves and drooping clusters of white flowers | Synonyms: Japanese andromeda, lily-of-the-valley tree, Pieris japonica |
armada | (noun) a large fleet | - |
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asafetida | (noun) the brownish gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic | Synonyms: asafoetida |
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asafoetida | (noun) the brownish gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic | Synonyms: asafetida |
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autostrada | (noun) an expressway in an Italian-speaking country | - |
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barracuda | (noun) any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth | - |
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candida | (noun) any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida | - |
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caranda | (noun) South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax | Synonyms: caranda palm, caranday, Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, wax palm |
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cauda | (noun) any taillike structure | - |
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cicada | (noun) stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone | Synonyms: cicala |
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coda | (noun) the closing section of a musical composition | Synonyms: finale |
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corrida | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: bullfight |
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corrigenda | (noun) a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections | - |
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dada | (noun) a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty | Synonyms: dadaism |
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(noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop |
edda | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, taro, taro root |
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enchilada | (noun) tortilla with meat filling baked in tomato sauce seasoned with chili | - |
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gravida | (noun) a pregnant woman | - |
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(noun) the number of the pregnancy that a woman is in | - |
hacienda | (noun) the main house on a ranch or large estate | - |
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(noun) a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries | - |
intifada | (noun) an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 | Synonyms: intifadah |
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jacaranda | (noun) an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black | Synonyms: Brazilian rosewood, caviuna wood, Dalbergia nigra |
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kinda | (adverb) to some (great or small) extent | Synonyms: kind of, rather, sort of |
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lambda | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull | - |
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(noun) the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
memoranda | (noun) a written proposal or reminder | Synonyms: memo, memorandum |
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monarda | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda | Synonyms: wild bergamot |
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nada | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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novillada | (noun) a bullfight in which the bulls are less than four years old | - |
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pagoda | (noun) an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof | - |
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panda | (noun) large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet; in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae | Synonyms: Ailuropoda melanoleuca, coon bear, giant panda, panda bear |
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(noun) reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore; in some classifications considered unrelated to the giant pandas | Synonyms: Ailurus fulgens, bear cat, cat bear, lesser panda, red panda |
primigravida | (noun) (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time | Synonyms: gravida I |
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propaganda | (noun) information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause | - |
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remuda | (noun) the herd of horses from which those to be used the next day are chosen | - |
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reseda | (noun) any plant of the genus Reseda | - |
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rotunda | (noun) a large circular room | - |
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(noun) a building having a circular plan and a dome | - |
secundigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the second time | Synonyms: gravida II |
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soda | (noun) a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring | Synonyms: pop, soda pop, soda water, tonic |
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(noun) a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper | Synonyms: sal soda, soda ash, sodium carbonate, washing soda |
svoboda | (noun) (Russia) freedom | - |
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tertigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the third time | Synonyms: gravida III |
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tostada | (noun) a flat tortilla with various fillings piled on it | - |
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(noun) a crisp flat tortilla | - |
vanda | (noun) any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes | - |
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veranda | (noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: gallery, verandah |
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