allocate | (verb) distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose | Synonyms: apportion |
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allophone | (noun) (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme | - |
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allotrope | (noun) a structurally different form of an element | - |
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allowable | (adjective) that may be permitted especially as according to rule | Synonyms: permissible |
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(adjective) deserving to be allowed or considered | - |
(adjective) deductible according to the tax laws | - |
allowance | (noun) the act of allowing | - |
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(noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: leeway, margin, tolerance |
(noun) an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period) | - |
(noun) an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment |
(noun) a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses | - |
(noun) a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets | Synonyms: allowance account, valuation account, valuation reserve |
(verb) put on a fixed allowance, as of food | - |
allspice | (noun) ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves | - |
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(noun) aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries | Synonyms: allspice tree, Pimenta dioica, pimento tree |
(noun) deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States | - |
allude | (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: advert, touch |
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allure | (noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allurement, temptingness |
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(verb) dispose or incline or entice to | Synonyms: tempt |
allusive | (adjective) characterized by indirect references | - |
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almandine | (noun) a purple variety of the ruby spinel | - |
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(noun) a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate | Synonyms: almandite |
almandite | (noun) a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate | Synonyms: almandine |
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aloe | (noun) succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa | - |
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alone | (adjective) exclusive of anyone or anything else | Synonyms: only |
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(adjective) radically distinctive and without equal | Synonyms: unequaled, unequalled, unique, unparalleled |
(adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: lone, lonely, solitary |
(adjective) isolated from others | - |
(adverb) without any others being included or involved | Synonyms: entirely, exclusively, only, solely |
(adverb) without anybody else or anything else | Synonyms: solo, unaccompanied |
alongside | (adverb) side by side | Synonyms: aboard |
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alpestrine | (adjective) growing at high altitudes | Synonyms: subalpine |
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alphabetise | (verb) arrange in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetize |
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alphabetize | (verb) arrange in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetise |
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(verb) provide with an alphabet | - |
alpine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of alps | - |
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(adjective) living or growing above the timber line | - |
altarpiece | (noun) a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table | Synonyms: reredos |
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alterable | (adjective) capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic | - |
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(adjective) (of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe | - |
alterative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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altercate | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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alternate | (adjective) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired | - |
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(adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternative, substitute |
(adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternating |
(adjective) every second one of a series | - |
(noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: replacement, surrogate |
(verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
(verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
(verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
(verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
(verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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(adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
(adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
(noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
altitude | (noun) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface | Synonyms: height |
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(noun) angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | Synonyms: ALT, EL, elevation |
(noun) the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel) | - |
aluminate | (noun) a compound of alumina and a metallic oxide | - |
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aluminise | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminize |
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aluminize | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminise |
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alveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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alvine | (adjective) of or relating to the intestines | - |
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amalgamate | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated, fused |
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(verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: commix, mingle, mix, unify |
amalgamative | (adjective) characterized by or tending toward amalgamation | - |
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amaranthine | (adjective) of or related to the amaranth plant | - |
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(adjective) of an imaginary flower that never fades | Synonyms: unfading |
amarelle | (noun) pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice | - |
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(noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus caproniana |
amative | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amorous |
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amaze | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: astonish, astound |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
ambage | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: circumlocution, periphrasis |
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ambiance | (noun) the atmosphere of an environment | Synonyms: ambience |
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(noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambience, atmosphere |
ambience | (noun) the atmosphere of an environment | Synonyms: ambiance |
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(noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambiance, atmosphere |
ambivalence | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalency |
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ambiversive | (adjective) intermediate between introversive and extroversive | - |
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amble | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: perambulation, promenade, saunter, stroll |
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(verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: mosey |
amblygonite | (noun) a white or grey mineral consisting of lithium aluminum phosphate; a source of lithium | - |
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ambulance | (noun) a vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals | - |
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ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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ambuscade | (noun) the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise | Synonyms: ambush, lying in wait, trap |
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(verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
ameliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: better, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) to make better | Synonyms: amend, better, improve, meliorate |
ameliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, amelioratory, meliorative |
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amenable | (adjective) disposed or willing to conform | Synonyms: conformable |
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(adjective) liable to answer to a higher authority | - |
(adjective) responsive to suggestions and influences | Synonyms: tractable |
(adjective) open to being acted upon in a certain way | - |
amendable | (adjective) capable of being corrected by additions | Synonyms: correctable |
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amerce | (verb) punish with an arbitrary penalty | - |
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(verb) punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court | - |
amerciable | (adjective) of a crime or misdemeanor; punishable by a fine set by a judge | - |
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amethystine | (adjective) containing or resembling amethyst | - |
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amiable | (adjective) diffusing warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: affable, cordial, genial |
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(adjective) disposed to please | Synonyms: good-humored, good-humoured |
amicable | (adjective) characterized by friendship and good will | - |
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amide | (noun) any organic compound containing the group -CONH2 | - |
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amidopyrine | (noun) a white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic | Synonyms: aminopyrine |
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amine | (noun) a compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals | Synonyms: aminoalkane |
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aminoalkane | (noun) a compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals | Synonyms: amine |
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aminobenzine | (noun) oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines | Synonyms: aniline, aniline oil, phenylamine |
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aminomethane | (noun) a methyl with the hydrogen atom replaced by an amino radical | - |
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aminopherase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminotransferase, transaminase |
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aminophylline | (noun) a theophylline derivative that is used as a bronchodilator in the treatment of bronchial asthma, emphysema, and bronchitis | - |
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aminopyrine | (noun) a white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic | Synonyms: amidopyrine |
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aminotransferase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminopherase, transaminase |
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amiodarone | (noun) an antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Cordarone) that has potentially fatal side effects and is used to control serious heart rhythm problems only when safer agents have been ineffective | Synonyms: Cordarone |
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amitriptyline | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Elavil) with serious side effects; interacts with many other medications | Synonyms: amitriptyline hydrochloride, Elavil |
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ammine | (noun) a complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules | - |
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ammoniate | (verb) treat with ammonia | - |
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ammonite | (noun) one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks | Synonyms: ammonoid |
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amniote | (noun) any member of the Amniota | - |
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amortise | (verb) liquidate gradually | Synonyms: amortize |
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amortize | (verb) liquidate gradually | Synonyms: amortise |
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amperage | (noun) the strength of an electrical current measured in amperes | - |
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ampere | (noun) the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: A, amp |
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(noun) a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere) | Synonyms: international ampere |
amphetamine | (noun) a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression | Synonyms: pep pill, speed, upper |
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amphibole | (noun) a mineral or mineral variety belonging to the amphibole group | - |
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amphibolite | (noun) a metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase | - |
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amphiprostyle | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphistylar, porticoed |
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amphitheatre | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheater, coliseum |
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(noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheater |
ampholyte | (noun) A substance that acts as a base or an acid, depending on the pH of the solution into which it is introduced. | Synonyms: amphoteric electrolyte |
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ample | (adjective) more than enough in size or scope or capacity | - |
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(adjective) affording an abundant supply | Synonyms: copious, plenteous, plentiful, rich |
(adjective) fairly large in size | Synonyms: sizable, sizeable |
amplitude | (noun) greatness of magnitude | - |
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(noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: bountifulness, bounty |
(noun) (physics) the maximum displacement of a periodic wave | - |
ampoule | (noun) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) | Synonyms: ampul, ampule, phial, vial |
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ampule | (noun) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) | Synonyms: ampoule, ampul, phial, vial |
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amputate | (verb) remove surgically | Synonyms: cut off |
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amputee | (noun) someone who has had a limb removed by amputation | - |
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amrinone | (noun) a drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure; increases strength of contraction of myocardium | Synonyms: Inocor |
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amuse | (verb) make (somebody) laugh | - |
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(verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: disport, divert |
amusive | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, diverting |
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amygdaline | (adjective) related to or resembling an almond | - |
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amylase | (noun) any of a group of proteins found in saliva and pancreatic juice and parts of plants; help convert starch to sugar | - |
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anaerobe | (noun) an organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live | - |
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anaesthetise | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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anaesthetize | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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anagoge | (noun) a mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture) | - |
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anagrammatise | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatize |
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anagrammatize | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatise |
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analogise | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogize |
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analogize | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogise |
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