abrocome | (noun) ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes | Synonyms: chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla |
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acrosome | (noun) a process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg | - |
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adventuresome | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventurous |
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aerodrome | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: airdrome, airport, drome |
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airdrome | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airport, drome |
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astrodome | (noun) a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations | - |
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autosome | (noun) any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa | Synonyms: somatic chromosome |
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awesome | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing |
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become | (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | Synonyms: get, go |
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(verb) come into existence | - |
(verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: turn |
(verb) enhance the appearance of | Synonyms: suit |
bichrome | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bicolor, bicolored, bicolour, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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biome | (noun) a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate | - |
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blithesome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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bothersome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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brome | (noun) any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions | Synonyms: bromegrass |
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bunglesome | (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ungainly |
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burdensome | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: onerous, taxing |
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centrosome | (noun) small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules | Synonyms: central body |
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chondriosome | (noun) an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy | Synonyms: mitochondrion |
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chrome | (noun) another word for chromium when it is used in dyes or pigments | - |
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(verb) treat with a chromium compound | - |
(verb) plate with chromium | Synonyms: chromium-plate |
chromosome | (noun) a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order | - |
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cleome | (noun) any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers | Synonyms: spiderflower |
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come | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: cum, ejaculate, seed, semen, seminal fluid |
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(verb) come to pass; arrive, as in due course | - |
(verb) be found or available | - |
(verb) reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position | - |
(verb) happen as a result | - |
(verb) have a certain priority | - |
(verb) come to one's mind; suggest itself | Synonyms: occur |
(verb) move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody | Synonyms: come up |
(verb) be received | Synonyms: come in |
(verb) cover a certain distance | - |
(verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: arrive, get |
(verb) experience orgasm | - |
(verb) come under, be classified or included | Synonyms: fall |
(verb) proceed or get along | Synonyms: do, fare, get along, make out |
(verb) extend or reach | - |
(verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: follow |
(verb) exist or occur in a certain point in a series | - |
(verb) be a native of | Synonyms: hail |
(verb) to measure up to in kind or quality | Synonyms: add up, amount |
(verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, number, total |
(verb) come forth | Synonyms: issue forth |
(verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: derive, descend |
cuddlesome | (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging | Synonyms: cuddly |
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cumbersome | (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
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(adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbrous |
cyclostome | (noun) primitive aquatic vertebrate | - |
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cytochrome | (noun) (biochemistry) a class of hemoprotein whose principal biological function is electron transfer (especially in cellular respiration) | - |
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cytostome | (noun) mouth of a protozoan | - |
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dermatome | (noun) a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin | - |
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dictyosome | (noun) a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) | Synonyms: Golgi apparatus, Golgi body, Golgi complex |
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dome | (noun) a hemispherical roof | - |
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(noun) a stadium that has a roof | Synonyms: covered stadium, domed stadium |
(noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bean, bonce, noggin, noodle |
(noun) a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward | - |
drome | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, airport |
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eightsome | (noun) a Scottish reel for eight dancers | - |
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(noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet, octette |
episome | (noun) DNA that is not incorporated into the genome but is replicated together with the genome (especially in bacterial cells) | - |
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epitome | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: image, paradigm, prototype |
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(noun) a brief abstract (as of an article or book) | - |
fearsome | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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fivesome | (noun) five people considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
flavorsome | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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flavoursome | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, sapid, saporous |
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fluorochrome | (noun) any of various fluorescent substances used in fluorescence microscopy to stain specimens | - |
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foursome | (noun) four people considered as a unit | Synonyms: quartet, quartette |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
frolicsome | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, rollicking, sportive |
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fulsome | (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
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gastronome | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, foodie, gourmet |
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genome | (noun) the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism | - |
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gladsome | (adjective) experiencing or expressing gladness or joy | - |
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gnathostome | (noun) a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws | - |
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gnome | (noun) a short pithy saying expressing a general truth | - |
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(noun) a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure | Synonyms: dwarf |
gruesome | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, macabre, sick |
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handsome | (adjective) pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion | Synonyms: better-looking, fine-looking, good-looking, on fleek, well-favored, well-favoured |
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(adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, liberal, openhanded |
hematochrome | (noun) a reddish coloring material found in some algae | - |
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hippodrome | (noun) a stadium for horse shows or horse races | - |
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home | (adjective) used of your own ground | - |
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(adjective) relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are | - |
(adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: interior, internal, national |
(noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation |
(noun) an institution where people are cared for | Synonyms: nursing home, rest home |
(noun) (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score | Synonyms: home base, home plate, plate |
(noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: family, house, household, menage |
(noun) the country or state or city where you live | - |
(noun) place where something began and flourished | - |
(noun) where you live at a particular time | Synonyms: place |
(noun) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end | Synonyms: base |
(noun) an environment offering affection and security | - |
(adverb) at or to or in the direction of one's home or family | - |
(adverb) to the fullest extent; to the heart | - |
(adverb) on or to the point aimed at | - |
(verb) return home accurately from a long distance | - |
(verb) provide with, or send to, a home | - |
income | (noun) the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time | - |
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irksome | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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lightsome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted |
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(adjective) moving easily and quickly; nimble | Synonyms: light, tripping |
liposome | (noun) an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector | - |
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lissome | (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lithe, lithesome, sinuous, supple |
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lithesome | (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithe, sinuous, supple |
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loathsome | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
lonesome | (adjective) marked by dejection from being alone | Synonyms: lonely |
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(adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, only, sole, solitary |
lovesome | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: affectionate, fond, tender |
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loxodrome | (noun) a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction | Synonyms: rhumb, rhumb line |
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lysosome | (noun) an organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells) | - |
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meddlesome | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddling, officious |
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metronome | (noun) clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music | - |
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mettlesome | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, gritty, spirited, spunky |
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(adjective) having a proud and unbroken spirit | - |
microsome | (noun) a tiny granule in the cytoplasm that is where protein synthesis takes place under the direction of mRNA | - |
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microtome | (noun) scientific instrument that cuts thin slices of something for microscopic examination | - |
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monochrome | (adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochromatic, monochromic, monochromous |
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(noun) a black-and-white photograph or slide | Synonyms: black and white |
(noun) painting done in a range of tones of a single color | - |
nettlesome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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(adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
noisome | (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, smelly, stinking |
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(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
outcome | (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, result, resultant, termination |
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(noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, issue, result, upshot |
overcome | (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, master, subdue, surmount |
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(verb) overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome | Synonyms: get the best, have the best |
(verb) win a victory over | Synonyms: defeat, get the better of |
(verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
palindrome | (noun) a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward | - |
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peristome | (noun) region around the mouth in various invertebrates | - |
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(noun) (botany) fringe of toothlike appendages surrounding the mouth of a moss capsule | - |
polychrome | (adjective) having or exhibiting many colors | Synonyms: polychromatic, polychromic |
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(noun) a piece of work composed of or decorated in many colors | - |
(verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychromise, polychromize |
pome | (noun) a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part | Synonyms: false fruit |
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prodrome | (noun) an early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur | Synonyms: prodroma |
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proteome | (noun) the full complement of proteins produced by a particular genome | - |
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proteosome | (noun) a form of vaccine that can be administered by an inhaler | Synonyms: proteosome vaccine |
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quarrelsome | (adjective) given to quarreling | - |
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radome | (noun) a housing for a radar antenna; transparent to radio waves | Synonyms: radar dome |
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rhizome | (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rootstalk, rootstock |
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ribosome | (noun) an organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell | - |
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sarcosome | (noun) a large mitochondrion in a striated muscle fiber | - |
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schistosome | (noun) flatworms parasitic in the blood vessels of mammals | Synonyms: blood fluke |
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sevensome | (noun) seven people considered as a unit | Synonyms: septet, septette |
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sixsome | (noun) six people considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
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some | (adjective) (quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity | - |
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(adjective) remarkable | - |
(adjective) relatively many but unspecified in number | - |
(adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: about, approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly |
syndrome | (noun) a complex of concurrent things | - |
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(noun) a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease | - |
threesome | (noun) three people considered as a unit | Synonyms: triad, trinity, trio |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
tichodrome | (noun) crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa | Synonyms: Tichodroma muriaria, wall creeper |
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tiresome | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, wearisome |
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toilsome | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing |
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tome | (noun) a (usually) large and scholarly book | - |
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toothsome | (adjective) acceptable to the taste or mind | Synonyms: palatable |
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(adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: juicy, luscious, lush, red-hot, voluptuous |
(adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, yummy |
torturesome | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous |
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trichrome | (adjective) having or involving three colors | Synonyms: trichromatic, tricolor |
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troublesome | (adjective) causing difficulty or annoyance | - |
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twosome | (noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: couple, duet, duo |
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(noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, yoke |