antipodean | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodal |
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apogean | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of an apogee | - |
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archaean | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon | Synonyms: archean |
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archean | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon | Synonyms: archaean |
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aurorean | (adjective) characteristic of the dawn | Synonyms: auroral |
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bean | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle |
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(noun) any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food | Synonyms: edible bean |
(noun) any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods | Synonyms: bean plant |
(noun) any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans | - |
(verb) hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball | - |
bogbean | (noun) 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 | Synonyms: bog myrtle, buckbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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buckbean | (noun) 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 | Synonyms: bog myrtle, bogbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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butterbean | (noun) small flat green bean similar to lima beans | Synonyms: butter bean, civet bean, sieva bean |
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caducean | (adjective) of or relating to a caduceus | - |
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caesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarian, cesarean, cesarian |
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(noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
calean | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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cerulean | (adjective) of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky | Synonyms: azure, bright blue, sky-blue |
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(noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue |
cesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarian |
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(noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
cetacean | (adjective) of or relating to whales and dolphins etc | Synonyms: cetaceous |
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(noun) large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals | Synonyms: blower, cetacean mammal |
clean | (adjective) free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits | - |
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(adjective) (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers | Synonyms: unobjectionable |
(adjective) not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination | Synonyms: uncontaminating |
(adjective) ritually clean or pure | - |
(adjective) free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed | Synonyms: neat |
(adjective) free from sepsis or infection | Synonyms: uninfected |
(adjective) thorough and without qualification | - |
(adjective) without difficulties or problems | - |
(adjective) (of a surface) not written or printed on | Synonyms: blank, white |
(adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty |
(adjective) (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections | Synonyms: fair |
(adjective) morally pure | Synonyms: clean-living |
(adjective) (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense | - |
(adjective) free from impurities | Synonyms: fresh |
(adjective) free of drugs | - |
(adjective) not carrying concealed weapons | - |
(adjective) free of restrictions or qualifications | Synonyms: clear |
(adjective) (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims | Synonyms: clear, light, unclouded |
(noun) a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead | Synonyms: clean and jerk |
(adverb) in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating | Synonyms: fair, fairly |
(adverb) completely; used as intensifiers | Synonyms: plum, plumb |
(verb) clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing | Synonyms: cleanse |
(verb) remove unwanted substances from | Synonyms: scavenge |
(verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits | Synonyms: pick |
(verb) remove shells or husks from | - |
(verb) make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from | Synonyms: make clean |
(verb) clean and tidy up the house | Synonyms: clean house, houseclean |
(verb) remove while making clean | - |
(verb) remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely | Synonyms: strip |
(verb) deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc. | - |
(verb) be cleanable | - |
crustacean | (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustaceous |
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(noun) any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton | - |
cyclopean | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops | - |
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dean | (noun) an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college | - |
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(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals | - |
(noun) a man who is the senior member of a group | Synonyms: doyen |
demean | (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: degrade, disgrace, put down, take down |
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empyrean | (adjective) of or relating to the sky or heavens | Synonyms: empyreal |
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(adjective) inspiring awe | Synonyms: empyreal, sublime |
(noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
epicurean | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous |
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(adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: hedonic, hedonistic |
(noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
euclidean | (adjective) relating to geometry as developed by Euclid | Synonyms: euclidian |
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gallinacean | (noun) heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds | Synonyms: gallinaceous bird |
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gean | (noun) wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting | Synonyms: mazzard, mazzard cherry |
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glean | (verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: harvest, reap |
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herculean | (adjective) extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules | - |
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(adjective) displaying superhuman strength or power | Synonyms: powerful |
hirudinean | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, leech |
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horsebean | (noun) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | Synonyms: Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata |
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(noun) seed of the broad-bean plant | Synonyms: broad bean, fava bean |
houseclean | (verb) clean and tidy up the house | Synonyms: clean, clean house |
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jean | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, dungaree |
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larvacean | (noun) any member of the class Larvacea | - |
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lean | (adjective) lacking in mineral content or combustible material | - |
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(adjective) lacking excess flesh | Synonyms: thin |
(adjective) not profitable or prosperous | - |
(adjective) containing little excess | Synonyms: skimpy |
(noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, leaning, list, tilt |
(verb) rely on for support | - |
(verb) cause to lean or incline | - |
(verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, slant, tilt, tip |
(verb) cause to lean to the side | Synonyms: list |
(verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, run, tend |
marmorean | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of marble | Synonyms: marmoreal |
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mean | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: bastardly |
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(adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, meanspirited |
(adjective) characterized by malice | Synonyms: hateful |
(adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: average |
(adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: beggarly |
(adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: beggarly |
(adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mingy, miserly, tight |
(adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, ripping, splendid |
(noun) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n | Synonyms: mean value |
(verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: intend, think |
(verb) intend to refer to | Synonyms: have in mind, think of |
(verb) destine or designate for a certain purpose | - |
(verb) mean or intend to express or convey | Synonyms: intend |
(verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: intend, signify, stand for |
(verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: entail, imply |
(verb) have a specified degree of importance | - |
mephistophelean | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian |
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misdemean | (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misconduct |
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nemertean | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertine, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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ocean | (noun) a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere | - |
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(noun) anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume | Synonyms: sea |
paean | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, panegyric, pean |
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(noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) | Synonyms: pean |
pean | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, paean, panegyric |
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(noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) | Synonyms: paean |
percoidean | (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | Synonyms: percoid, percoid fish |
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platyctenean | (noun) ctenophore have long tentacles and flattened body | - |
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proboscidean | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidian |
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protean | (adjective) taking on different forms | - |
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sarcocystidean | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystieian, sarcosporidian |
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scarabaean | (noun) any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes | Synonyms: scarabaeid, scarabaeid beetle |
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screwbean | (noun) shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods | Synonyms: Prosopis pubescens, screw bean, screwbean mesquite, tornillo |
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soybean | (noun) the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known; the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein) | Synonyms: soy, soya, soya bean |
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(noun) erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia | Synonyms: Glycine max, soja, soja bean, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean plant |
(noun) a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food | Synonyms: soy, soya bean |
subocean | (adjective) formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed | Synonyms: suboceanic |
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subterranean | (adjective) lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) | Synonyms: subterraneous, ulterior |
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(adjective) being or operating under the surface of the earth | Synonyms: subterraneous |
terpsichorean | (adjective) of or relating to dancing | - |
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(noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: dancer, professional dancer |
testacean | (noun) any of various rhizopods of the order Testacea characterized by having a shell | - |
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tirolean | (noun) soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade | Synonyms: tyrolean |
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tyrolean | (noun) soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade | Synonyms: tirolean |
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unclean | (adjective) having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws | Synonyms: impure |
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(adjective) soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime | Synonyms: dirty, soiled |
wean | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: ablactate |
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(verb) detach the affections of | - |