| abeam
|
(adverb) at right angles to the length of a ship or airplane |
- |
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| ableism
|
(noun) discrimination in favor of the able-bodied |
Synonyms:
able-bodiedism,
able-bodism,
ablism |
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| ablism
|
(noun) discrimination in favor of the able-bodied |
Synonyms:
able-bodiedism,
able-bodism,
ableism |
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| abloom
|
(adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower |
Synonyms:
efflorescent |
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| abohm
|
(noun) a unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm |
- |
|---|
| abolitionism
|
(noun) the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery |
- |
|---|
| abomasum
|
(noun) the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place |
Synonyms:
fourth stomach |
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| absenteeism
|
(noun) habitual absence from work |
- |
|---|
| absolutism
|
(noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence |
Synonyms:
despotism,
tyranny |
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| (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) |
Synonyms:
totalitarianism,
monocracy,
despotism,
dictatorship,
one-man rule,
Stalinism,
shogunate,
Caesarism,
authoritarianism,
tyranny |
| (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. |
Synonyms:
totalism,
totalitarianism |
| (noun) the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy. |
- |
| abstractionism
|
(noun) an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation |
Synonyms:
abstract art |
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| (noun) a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples |
Synonyms:
unrealism |
| abysm
|
(noun) a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively) |
Synonyms:
abyss |
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| academicism
|
(noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety |
Synonyms:
scholasticism,
academism |
|---|
| (noun) Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes. |
- |
| (noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. |
Synonyms:
academic art,
academism |
| academism
|
(noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety |
Synonyms:
scholasticism,
academicism |
|---|
| (noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. |
Synonyms:
academic art,
academicism |
| acclaim
|
(verb) praise vociferously |
Synonyms:
hail,
herald |
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| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval |
Synonyms:
clap,
spat,
applaud |
| (noun) enthusiastic approval |
Synonyms:
plaudit,
plaudits,
eclat,
acclamation |
| accustom
|
(verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) |
Synonyms:
habituate |
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| acephalism
|
(noun) absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters) |
Synonyms:
acephalia,
acephaly |
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| acetabulum
|
(noun) the cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur fits to form a ball-and-socket joint |
Synonyms:
cotyloid cavity |
|---|
| acetum
|
(noun) a dilute solution of acetic acid that is used as a solvent (e.g. for a drug) |
- |
|---|
| (noun) sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative |
Synonyms:
vinegar |
| achromatism
|
(noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color |
Synonyms:
colorlessness,
colourlessness,
achromaticity |
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| acmeism
|
(noun) An early 20th-century Russian school of poetry that rejected the vagueness and emotionality of Symbolism in favor of Imagist clarity and texture. |
- |
|---|
| acneiform
|
(adjective) resembling acne |
- |
|---|
| acronym
|
(noun) a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word |
Synonyms:
initialism |
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| actinism
|
(noun) the property of radiation that enables it to produce photochemical effects |
- |
|---|
| actinium
|
(noun) a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores |
Synonyms:
Ac,
atomic number 89 |
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| activism
|
(noun) a policy of taking direct action to achieve a political or social goal |
- |
|---|
| adactylism
|
(noun) congenital absence of fingers and/or toes |
Synonyms:
adactylia,
adactyly |
|---|
| addendum
|
(noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end |
Synonyms:
supplement,
postscript |
|---|
| adventurism
|
(noun) recklessness in politics or foreign affairs |
- |
|---|
| aecium
|
(noun) fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores |
- |
|---|
| aeriform
|
(adjective) resembling air or having the form of air |
Synonyms:
airlike |
|---|
| (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air |
Synonyms:
ethereal,
aerial,
aery,
airy |
| aeroembolism
|
(noun) obstruction of the circulatory system caused by an air bubble as, e.g., accidentally during surgery or hypodermic injection or as a complication from scuba diving |
Synonyms:
gas embolism,
air embolism |
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| (noun) pain resulting from rapid change in pressure |
Synonyms:
decompression sickness,
gas embolism,
caisson disease,
air embolism,
bends |
| aerogram
|
(noun) a letter sent by air mail |
Synonyms:
aerogramme,
air letter,
airmail letter |
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| affirm
|
(verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts |
Synonyms:
substantiate,
support,
sustain,
confirm,
corroborate |
|---|
| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true |
Synonyms:
swear,
verify,
assert,
swan,
aver,
avow |
| (verb) say yes to |
- |
| ageism
|
(noun) discrimination on the basis of a person's age |
Synonyms:
agism |
|---|
| agendum
|
(noun) a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting) |
Synonyms:
agenda,
order of business |
|---|
| ageratum
|
(noun) rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium |
Synonyms:
mist-flower,
mistflower,
Eupatorium coelestinum,
Conoclinium coelestinum |
|---|
| (noun) any plant of the genus Ageratum having opposite leaves and small heads of blue or white flowers |
- |
| agism
|
(noun) discrimination on the basis of a person's age |
Synonyms:
ageism |
|---|
| agleam
|
(adjective) bright with a steady but subdued shining |
Synonyms:
nitid,
gleaming |
|---|
| agnosticism
|
(noun) a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God |
- |
|---|
| (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge |
Synonyms:
scepticism,
skepticism |
| ahem
|
(noun) the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc. |
Synonyms:
hem |
|---|
| aim
|
(noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions |
Synonyms:
intention,
design,
intent,
purpose |
|---|
| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) |
Synonyms:
target,
object,
objective |
| (noun) the action of directing something at an object |
- |
| (noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies |
Synonyms:
heading,
bearing |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards |
Synonyms:
direct,
take,
train,
take aim |
| (verb) propose or intend |
Synonyms:
propose,
purport,
purpose |
| (verb) move into a desired direction of discourse |
Synonyms:
get,
drive |
| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public |
Synonyms:
direct,
calculate |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal |
Synonyms:
direct,
place,
point,
target |
| (verb) direct (a remark) toward an intended goal |
- |
| (verb) have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal |
Synonyms:
draw a bead on,
shoot for,
aspire |
| airstream
|
(noun) a relatively well-defined prevailing wind |
- |
|---|
| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller |
Synonyms:
race,
wash,
slipstream,
backwash |
| alarm
|
(verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised |
Synonyms:
horrify,
dismay,
appal,
appall |
|---|
| (verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness |
Synonyms:
alert |
| (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger |
Synonyms:
dismay,
consternation |
| (noun) a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event |
Synonyms:
warning device,
alarm system |
| (noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger |
Synonyms:
warning signal,
alarum,
alert |
| (noun) a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time |
Synonyms:
alarm clock |
| alarmism
|
(noun) needless warnings |
- |
|---|
| alarum
|
(noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger |
Synonyms:
alarm,
warning signal,
alert |
|---|
| alastrim
|
(noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus |
Synonyms:
variola minor,
milk pox,
pseudosmallpox,
pseudovariola,
Kaffir pox,
West Indian smallpox,
white pox,
Cuban itch |
|---|
| albinism
|
(noun) the congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair |
- |
|---|
| album
|
(noun) one or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc |
Synonyms:
record album |
|---|
| (noun) a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc |
- |
| alcoholism
|
(noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms |
Synonyms:
drunkenness,
inebriation,
alcohol addiction |
|---|
| (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess |
Synonyms:
dipsomania,
potomania |
| aldosteronism
|
(noun) a condition caused by overproduction of aldosterone |
Synonyms:
hyperaldosteronism |
|---|
| algorism
|
(noun) the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration |
- |
|---|
| (noun) computation with Arabic figures |
- |
| algorithm
|
(noun) a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem |
Synonyms:
algorithmic program,
algorithmic rule |
|---|
| alienism
|
(noun) an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness |
- |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of being alien |
Synonyms:
alienage |
| aliform
|
(adjective) having or resembling wings |
Synonyms:
wing-shaped,
alar,
alary |
|---|
| allomerism
|
(noun) (chemistry) variability in chemical composition without variation in crystalline form |
- |
|---|
| allotropism
|
(noun) the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms |
Synonyms:
allotropy |
|---|
| alluvium
|
(noun) clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down |
Synonyms:
alluvion,
alluvial deposit,
alluvial sediment |
|---|
| alprazolam
|
(noun) an antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class |
Synonyms:
Xanax |
|---|
| altruism
|
(noun) the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others |
Synonyms:
selflessness |
|---|
| alum
|
(noun) a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum |
Synonyms:
ammonia alum,
ammonium alum |
|---|
| (noun) a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum |
Synonyms:
potash alum,
potassium alum |
| (noun) a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things) |
- |
| (noun) a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) |
Synonyms:
graduate,
grad,
alumna,
alumnus |
| alumbloom
|
(noun) any of several herbs of the genus Heuchera |
Synonyms:
alumroot |
|---|
| aluminium
|
(noun) a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite |
Synonyms:
Al,
aluminum,
atomic number 13 |
|---|
| aluminum
|
(noun) a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite |
Synonyms:
Al,
aluminium,
atomic number 13 |
|---|
| alundum
|
(noun) a substance made of fused alumina |
- |
|---|
| alyssum
|
(noun) any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers |
Synonyms:
madwort |
|---|
| amalgam
|
(noun) an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams |
Synonyms:
dental amalgam |
|---|
| (noun) a combination or blend of diverse things |
- |
| amateurism
|
(noun) the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money |
- |
|---|
| ambulacrum
|
(noun) one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located |
- |
|---|
| americium
|
(noun) a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms |
Synonyms:
Am,
atomic number 95 |
|---|
| ammobium
|
(noun) any plant of the genus Ammobium having yellow flowers and silvery foliage |
- |
|---|
| ammonium
|
(noun) the ion NH4 derived from ammonia; behaves in many respects like an alkali metal ion |
Synonyms:
ammonium ion |
|---|
| amoralism
|
(noun) the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid |
- |
|---|
| amygdaliform
|
(adjective) shaped like an almond |
Synonyms:
almond-shaped,
amygdaloid,
amygdaloidal |
|---|
| amylum
|
(noun) a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles |
Synonyms:
starch |
|---|
| anabolism
|
(noun) the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy |
Synonyms:
constructive metabolism |
|---|
| anachronism
|
(noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred |
Synonyms:
misdating,
mistiming |
|---|
| (noun) an artifact that belongs to another time |
- |
| (noun) a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age |
- |
| anagram
|
(verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning |
Synonyms:
anagrammatise,
anagrammatize |
|---|
| (noun) a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase |
- |
| analphabetism
|
(noun) an inability to read |
Synonyms:
illiteracy |
|---|
| anamorphism
|
(noun) the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes |
Synonyms:
anamorphosis |
|---|
| (noun) metamorphism that occurs deep under the earth's surface; changes simple minerals into complex minerals |
- |
| (noun) a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner |
Synonyms:
anamorphosis |
| anancasm
|
(noun) An obsolete term for ritualistic act or sequence of acts performed by a person with obsessive-compulsive neurosis. |
- |
|---|
| anarchism
|
(noun) a political theory favoring the abolition of governments |
- |
|---|
| androecium
|
(noun) a male gametoecium |
- |
|---|
| anecdotalism
|
(noun) The property of being related to short accounts of real incidents or persons, often humorous or interesting. |
- |
|---|
| anestrum
|
(noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus |
Synonyms:
anestrus,
anoestrum,
anoestrus |
|---|
| aneurism
|
(noun) a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall |
Synonyms:
aneurysm |
|---|
| aneurysm
|
(noun) a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall |
Synonyms:
aneurism |
|---|
| angelim
|
(noun) any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira |
Synonyms:
andelmin |
|---|
| angiocardiogram
|
(noun) a series of X rays representing the action of the heart and its blood vessels after the injection of a radiopaque substance |
- |
|---|
| angiogram
|
(noun) an X-ray representation of blood vessels made after the injection of a radiopaque substance |
- |
|---|
| angiosperm
|
(noun) plants having seeds in a closed ovary |
Synonyms:
flowering plant |
|---|
| angleworm
|
(noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers |
Synonyms:
red worm,
nightcrawler,
nightwalker,
dew worm,
earthworm,
wiggler,
crawler,
fishing worm,
fishworm |
|---|
| angrecum
|
(noun) any of various spectacular orchids of the genus Angraecum having dark green leathery leaves and usually nocturnally scented white or ivory flowers |
- |
|---|
| angstrom
|
(noun) a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation |
Synonyms:
A,
angstrom unit |
|---|
| animalculum
|
(noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium |
Synonyms:
animalcule |
|---|
| animalism
|
(noun) the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature |
- |
|---|
| (noun) preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites |
Synonyms:
physicality |
| animatism
|
(noun) the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones |
- |
|---|
| animism
|
(noun) the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls |
- |
|---|
| annalism
|
(noun) The writing of annals. |
- |
|---|
| annum
|
(noun) (Latin) year |
- |
|---|
| anoestrum
|
(noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus |
Synonyms:
anestrum,
anestrus,
anoestrus |
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