alloantibody | (noun) an antibody that occurs naturally against foreign tissues from a person of the same species | Synonyms: isoantibody |
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already | (adverb) prior to a specified or implied time | - |
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amphidiploidy | (noun) the condition of being amphidiploid | - |
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aneuploidy | (noun) an abnormality involving a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number (one chromosome set is incomplete) | - |
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antibody | (noun) any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response | - |
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autoantibody | (noun) an antibody acting against tissues of the organism that produces it | - |
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baldy | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, skin, skinhead |
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bandy | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged |
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(verb) discuss lightly | Synonyms: kick around |
(verb) exchange blows | - |
(verb) toss or strike a ball back and forth | - |
bastardy | (noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, illegitimacy |
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bawdy | (adjective) humorously vulgar | Synonyms: off-color, ribald |
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(noun) lewd or obscene talk or writing | Synonyms: bawdry |
beady | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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(adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, buttonlike, buttony |
biddy | (noun) young bird especially of domestic fowl | Synonyms: chick |
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(noun) adult female chicken | Synonyms: hen |
blackbody | (noun) a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it | Synonyms: black body, full radiator |
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bloody | (adjective) having or covered with or accompanied by blood | - |
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(adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
(adverb) extremely | Synonyms: all-fired, all-firedly, damn |
(verb) cover with blood | - |
body | (noun) the external structure of a vehicle | - |
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(noun) a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) | Synonyms: soundbox |
(noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: consistence, consistency, substance |
(noun) the main mass of a thing | - |
(noun) the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being) | Synonyms: organic structure |
(noun) the body excluding the head and neck and limbs | Synonyms: torso, trunk |
(noun) a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person | Synonyms: dead body |
(noun) the central message of a communication | - |
(noun) a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity | - |
(noun) a collection of particulars considered as a system | - |
(noun) an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects | - |
(verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to | Synonyms: personify |
brandy | (noun) distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice | - |
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broody | (adjective) physiologically ready to incubate eggs | - |
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(adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
(noun) a domestic hen ready to brood | Synonyms: brood hen, broody hen, setting hen, sitter |
buddy | (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekick |
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burgundy | (noun) a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color | - |
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busybody | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: nosey-parker, nosy-parker, quidnunc |
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caddy | (noun) a can for storing tea | Synonyms: tea caddy |
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(verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddie |
candy | (noun) a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts | Synonyms: confect |
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(verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: glaze, sugarcoat |
chiropody | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the feet | Synonyms: podiatry |
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cloudy | (adjective) full of or covered with clouds | - |
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(adjective) lacking definite form or limits | Synonyms: nebulose, nebulous |
(adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: mirky, muddy, murky, turbid |
comedy | (noun) light and humorous drama with a happy ending | - |
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(noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: clowning, drollery, funniness |
crawdaddy | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
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cruddy | (adjective) characterized by obscenity | Synonyms: filthy, foul, nasty, smutty |
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cryptorchidy | (noun) failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops | Synonyms: cryptorchidism, cryptorchism |
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cuddy | (noun) the galley or pantry of a small ship | - |
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custody | (noun) holding by the police | - |
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(noun) (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child | Synonyms: hands |
(noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: detainment, detention, hold |
daddy | (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, dada, pa, papa, pappa, pop |
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dandy | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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(noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost | Synonyms: yawl |
(noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
diploidy | (noun) the condition of being diploid | - |
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disembody | (verb) free from a body or physical form or reality | - |
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dogsbody | (noun) a worker who has to do all the unpleasant or boring jobs that no one else wants to do | - |
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dowdy | (adjective) lacking in smartness or taste | - |
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(adjective) primly out of date | Synonyms: frumpish, frumpy |
(noun) deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust | Synonyms: pandowdy |
eddy | (noun) a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself | Synonyms: twist |
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(verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: purl, swirl, whirl, whirlpool |
embody | (verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: be, personify |
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(verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, incarnate, substantiate |
(verb) represent or express something abstract in tangible form | - |
faddy | (adjective) intensely fashionable for a short time | Synonyms: faddish |
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foolhardy | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: heady, rash, reckless |
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forelady | (noun) a woman who is foreperson of a jury | Synonyms: forewoman |
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gaudy | (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, jazzy, showy, sporty |
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(adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
(noun) (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held at a college | - |
giddy | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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(adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: dizzy, vertiginous, woozy |
goody | (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, kickshaw, treat |
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granddaddy | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddad, grandfather, grandpa |
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greedy | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, prehensile |
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(adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, esurient |
(adjective) wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume | - |
handy | (adjective) easy to reach | Synonyms: ready to hand |
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(adjective) skillful with the hands | - |
(adjective) useful and convenient | - |
haploidy | (noun) the condition of being haploid | - |
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hardy | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid, unfearing |
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(adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: stalwart, stout, sturdy |
(adjective) able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions | - |
heady | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: foolhardy, rash, reckless |
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(adjective) extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic | Synonyms: intoxicating |
(adjective) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters | Synonyms: judicious, wise |
heteroploidy | (noun) the condition of being heteroploid | - |
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homebody | (noun) a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel | Synonyms: stay-at-home |
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howdy | (noun) an expression of greeting | Synonyms: hello, hi, how-do-you-do, hullo |
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hymnody | (noun) the act of singing psalms or hymns | Synonyms: psalmody |
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isoantibody | (noun) an antibody that occurs naturally against foreign tissues from a person of the same species | Synonyms: alloantibody |
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jeopardy | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, hazard, peril, risk |
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jimdandy | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimhickey |
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(noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimhickey |
kiddy | (noun) informal term for a young child | Synonyms: kiddie |
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lady | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, gentlewoman, ma'am, madam |
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(noun) a polite name for any woman | - |
landlady | (noun) a landlord who is a woman | - |
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lindy | (noun) an energetic American dance that was popular in the 1930s (probably named for the aviator Charles Lindbergh) | Synonyms: lindy hop |
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makeready | (noun) final preparation and adjustments | - |
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malady | (noun) impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Synonyms: illness, sickness, unwellness |
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(noun) any unwholesome or desperate condition | - |
melody | (noun) the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes | Synonyms: tonal pattern |
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(noun) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence | Synonyms: air, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, strain, tune |
middy | (noun) blouse with a sailor collar | Synonyms: middy blouse |
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moldy | (adjective) covered with or smelling of mold | Synonyms: mouldy, musty |
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monody | (noun) music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) | Synonyms: monophonic music, monophony |
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moody | (adjective) subject to sharply varying moods | Synonyms: temperamental |
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(adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
mouldy | (adjective) covered with or smelling of mold | Synonyms: moldy, musty |
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muddy | (adjective) dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck | Synonyms: mucky |
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(adjective) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear | Synonyms: dingy, dirty, muddied |
(adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, mirky, murky, turbid |
(adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
(verb) make turbid | - |
(verb) cause to become muddy | - |
(verb) dirty with mud | Synonyms: muddy up |
needy | (adjective) demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree | - |
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(adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, poverty-stricken |
(noun) needy people collectively | - |
nobody | (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, nonentity |
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nonwoody | (adjective) not woody; not consisting of or resembling wood | - |
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organdy | (noun) a sheer stiff muslin | Synonyms: organdie |
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overgreedy | (adjective) excessively gluttonous | Synonyms: too-greedy |
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paddy | (noun) rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field | - |
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(noun) an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown | Synonyms: paddy field, rice paddy |
pandowdy | (noun) deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust | Synonyms: dowdy |
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parody | (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry | Synonyms: mockery, takeoff |
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(noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
(verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: burlesque, spoof |
(verb) make a spoof of or make fun of | - |
perfidy | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, treachery, treason |
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(noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidiousness, treachery |
polyploidy | (noun) the condition of being polyploid | - |
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polypody | (noun) any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium | - |
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prosody | (noun) the study of poetic meter and the art of versification | Synonyms: metrics |
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(noun) the patterns of stress and intonation in a language | Synonyms: inflection |
(noun) (prosody) a system of versification | Synonyms: poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern |
psalmody | (noun) the act of singing psalms or hymns | Synonyms: hymnody |
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randy | (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, horny, ruttish, steamy, turned on |
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ready | (adjective) completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress | - |
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(adjective) apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity | Synonyms: quick |
(adjective) made suitable and available for immediate use | - |
(adjective) mentally disposed | - |
(adjective) (of especially money) immediately available | - |
(noun) poised for action | - |
(verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: fix, gear up, prepare, set, set up |
(verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, fix, make, prepare |
reedy | (adjective) having a tone of a reed instrument | Synonyms: wheezy |
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(adjective) resembling a reed in being upright and slender | Synonyms: reedlike |
remedy | (noun) act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil | Synonyms: redress, remediation |
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(noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: curative, cure, therapeutic |
(verb) provide relief for | Synonyms: relieve |
(verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remediate, repair |
rhapsody | (noun) (in ancient Greece) an epic poem adapted for recitation | - |
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(noun) (music) a free instrumental composition in one extended movement; typically emotional or exuberant in character | - |
(noun) an enthusiastic expression of emotion | - |
rowdy | (adjective) disturbing the public peace; loud and rough | Synonyms: raucous |
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(noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
ruddy | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, scarlet |
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(adjective) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life | Synonyms: florid, rubicund, sanguine |
saleslady | (noun) a woman salesperson | Synonyms: salesgirl, saleswoman |
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sandy | (adjective) resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas | Synonyms: arenaceous, sandlike |
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(adjective) of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown | Synonyms: flaxen |
seedy | (adjective) full of seeds | - |
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(adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, sleazy, sordid, squalid |
(adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
(adjective) shabby and untidy | Synonyms: scruffy |
seriocomedy | (noun) a comedy with serious elements or overtones | Synonyms: tragicomedy |
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shady | (adjective) quiet, dark, or concealed | - |
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(adjective) of questionable honesty or legality | - |
(adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, funny, suspect, suspicious |
(adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous |
shandy | (noun) a drink made of beer and lemonade | Synonyms: shandygaff |
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shindy | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindig |
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shoddy | (adjective) unethical or dishonest | Synonyms: dirty, sordid |
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(adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: cheapjack, tawdry |
(noun) reclaimed wool fiber | - |
soddy | (noun) a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses | Synonyms: adobe house, sod house |
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somebody | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, mortal, person, someone, soul |
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