abient | (adjective) characterized by avoidance or withdrawal | - |
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abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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(noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: aborticide, abortion-inducing drug |
absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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adient | (adjective) characterized by acceptance or approach | - |
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ambient | (adjective) completely enveloping | - |
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ancient | (adjective) very old | - |
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(adjective) belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire | - |
(noun) a person who lived in ancient times | - |
(noun) a very old person | Synonyms: antediluvian |
aperient | (adjective) mildly laxative | - |
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(noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: cathartic, physic, purgative |
assentient | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assenting |
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calefacient | (adjective) producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body | Synonyms: warming |
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calorifacient | (adjective) producing heat; usually used of foods | - |
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client | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: guest, node |
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(noun) a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer | - |
(noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: customer |
coefficient | (noun) a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic | - |
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consentient | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentaneous, unanimous |
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convenient | (adjective) suited to your comfort or purpose or needs | - |
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(adjective) large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: commodious |
deficient | (adjective) of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement | Synonyms: insufficient |
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(adjective) inadequate in amount or degree | Synonyms: lacking, wanting |
(adjective) falling short of some prescribed norm | Synonyms: inferior, substandard |
disobedient | (adjective) not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority | - |
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(adjective) unwilling to submit to authority | Synonyms: unruly |
disorient | (verb) cause to be lost or disoriented | Synonyms: disorientate |
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dissentient | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissenting, dissident |
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(adjective) (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England | Synonyms: recusant |
dissilient | (adjective) bursting open with force, as do some ripe seed vessels | - |
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ebullient | (adjective) joyously unrestrained | Synonyms: exuberant, high-spirited |
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efficient | (adjective) being effective without wasting time or effort or expense | - |
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(adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: effective |
emollient | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: demulcent, salving, softening |
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(noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: cream, ointment |
esurient | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, greedy |
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(adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
(adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved |
expedient | (adjective) serving to promote your interest | - |
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(adjective) appropriate to a purpose; practical | - |
(noun) a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one | - |
experient | (adjective) having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation | Synonyms: experienced |
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gradient | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: slope |
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(noun) a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension | - |
immunodeficient | (adjective) incapable of developing an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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impatient | (adjective) restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition | - |
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(adjective) (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness | Synonyms: raring |
incipient | (adjective) only partly in existence; imperfectly formed | Synonyms: inchoate |
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inconvenient | (adjective) not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs | - |
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(adjective) not conveniently timed | - |
inefficient | (adjective) not producing desired results; wasteful | - |
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(adjective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate | Synonyms: ineffective |
inexpedient | (adjective) not suitable or advisable | - |
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(adjective) not appropriate to the purpose | Synonyms: unwise |
inexperient | (adjective) lacking practical experience or training | Synonyms: inexperienced |
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ingredient | (noun) a component of a mixture or compound | - |
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(noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, element, factor |
(noun) food that is a component of a mixture in cooking | Synonyms: fixings |
inpatient | (noun) a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated | Synonyms: inmate |
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insentient | (adjective) devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation | Synonyms: insensate |
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insufficient | (adjective) of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement | Synonyms: deficient |
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lenient | (adjective) characterized by tolerance and mercy | - |
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(adjective) tolerant or lenient | Synonyms: indulgent, soft |
(adjective) not strict | Synonyms: easy |
micronutrient | (noun) a substance needed only in small amounts for normal body function (e.g., vitamins or minerals) | - |
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mutafacient | (adjective) capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of intracellular agents) | - |
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nescient | (adjective) holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible | Synonyms: unbelieving |
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(adjective) uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication | Synonyms: ignorant, unlearned, unlettered |
nonresilient | (adjective) not resilient | - |
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nutrient | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive |
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(noun) any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | Synonyms: food |
(noun) any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis | - |
obedient | (adjective) dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority | - |
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omniscient | (adjective) infinitely wise | Synonyms: all-knowing |
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orient | (noun) the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia | Synonyms: eastern hemisphere |
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(verb) adjust to a specific need or market | Synonyms: tailor |
(verb) familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances | - |
(verb) determine one's position with reference to another point | Synonyms: orientate |
(verb) be oriented | Synonyms: point |
(verb) cause to point | - |
outpatient | (noun) a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated | - |
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parturient | (adjective) of or relating to or giving birth | - |
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(adjective) giving birth | - |
patient | (adjective) enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance | - |
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(noun) the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: affected role, patient role |
(noun) a person who requires medical care | - |
percipient | (adjective) characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving | Synonyms: clear |
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(noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, perceiver |
prescient | (adjective) perceiving the significance of events before they occur | - |
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prevenient | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: anticipatory |
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proficient | (adjective) of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill | Synonyms: technical |
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(adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, skilful, skillful |
prospicient | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted |
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prurient | (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lubricious, lustful, salacious |
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putrefacient | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefactive |
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quotient | (noun) the number obtained by division | - |
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(noun) the ratio of two quantities to be divided | - |
recipient | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: recipient role |
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(noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: receiver |
reorient | (verb) set or arrange in a new or different determinate position | - |
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(verb) cause to turn | - |
(verb) orient once again, after a disorientation | Synonyms: reorientate |
resilient | (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, springy |
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(adjective) recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like | - |
rubefacient | (noun) a medicine for external application that produces redness of the skin | - |
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salient | (adjective) (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees | - |
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(adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, spectacular, striking |
(adjective) represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward) | - |
(noun) (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy | - |
sapient | (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: perspicacious, sagacious |
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sentient | (adjective) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness | Synonyms: animate |
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(adjective) consciously perceiving | - |
sorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: absorbefacient |
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subservient | (adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid | Synonyms: implemental, instrumental |
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(adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: slavish, submissive |
(adjective) compliant and obedient to authority | - |
sufficient | (adjective) of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant | - |
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transient | (adjective) of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind | Synonyms: transeunt |
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(adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transitory |
(noun) (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load | - |
(noun) one who stays for only a short time | - |