acaryote | (noun) a cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte) | Synonyms: akaryocyte, akaryote |
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akaryote | (noun) a cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte) | Synonyms: acaryote, akaryocyte |
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amniote | (noun) any member of the Amniota | - |
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anecdote | (noun) short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) | - |
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antidote | (noun) a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison | Synonyms: counterpoison |
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asymptote | (noun) a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity | - |
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azote | (noun) an obsolete name for nitrogen | - |
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banknote | (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note |
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capote | (noun) a long cloak with a hood that can be pulled over the head | Synonyms: hooded cloak |
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(noun) a long overcoat with a hood that can be pulled over the head | Synonyms: hooded coat |
compote | (noun) dessert of stewed or baked fruit | Synonyms: fruit compote |
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connote | (verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | Synonyms: predicate |
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(verb) express or state indirectly | Synonyms: imply |
cote | (noun) a small shelter for domestic animals (as sheep or pigeons) | - |
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coyote | (noun) small wolf native to western North America | Synonyms: brush wolf, Canis latrans, prairie wolf |
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(noun) a forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (often for days at a time) | - |
(noun) someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border) | - |
creosote | (noun) a colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic | - |
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(noun) a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood | Synonyms: coal-tar creosote |
(verb) treat with creosote | - |
demote | (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, bump, kick downstairs, relegate |
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denote | (verb) have as a meaning | Synonyms: refer |
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(verb) be a sign or indication of | - |
(verb) make known; make an announcement | Synonyms: announce |
devote | (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: give, pay |
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(verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, give |
(verb) set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use | - |
dote | (verb) shower with love; show excessive affection for | - |
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(verb) be foolish or senile due to old age | - |
dovecote | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, columbary |
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emote | (verb) give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role | - |
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entrecote | (noun) cut of meat taken from between the ribs | - |
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eucaryote | (noun) an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells | Synonyms: eukaryote |
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eukaryote | (noun) an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells | Synonyms: eucaryote |
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footnote | (noun) a printed note placed below the text on a printed page | Synonyms: footer |
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(verb) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments | Synonyms: annotate |
garrote | (noun) an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | Synonyms: garotte, garrotte, iron collar |
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(verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrotte, scrag |
heterozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring | - |
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homozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic | - |
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hypermastigote | (noun) flagellate symbiotic in the intestines of e.g. termites | - |
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jocote | (noun) common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit | Synonyms: mombin, mombin tree, Spondias purpurea |
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keynote | (noun) a fundamental or central idea | - |
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(noun) (music) the first note of a diatonic scale | Synonyms: tonic |
(noun) the principal theme in a speech or literary work | - |
(verb) set the keynote of | - |
(verb) give the keynote address to (an audience) | - |
lepidote | (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy |
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locomote | (verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically | Synonyms: go, move, travel |
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matelote | (noun) highly seasoned soup or stew made of freshwater fishes (eel, carp, perch) with wine and stock | - |
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misquote | (noun) an incorrect quotation | Synonyms: misquotation |
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(verb) quote incorrectly | - |
mote | (noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, corpuscle, molecule, particle, speck |
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note | (noun) a characteristic emotional quality | - |
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(noun) a brief written record | - |
(noun) a comment or instruction (usually added) | Synonyms: annotation, notation |
(noun) a short personal letter | Synonyms: billet, line, short letter |
(noun) a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound | Synonyms: musical note, tone |
(noun) a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling | - |
(noun) a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time | Synonyms: note of hand, promissory note |
(noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback |
(noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: distinction, eminence, preeminence |
(verb) make mention of | Synonyms: mention, observe, remark |
(verb) make a written note of | Synonyms: take down |
(verb) notice or perceive | Synonyms: mark, notice |
(verb) observe with care or pay close attention to | Synonyms: observe, take note |
outvote | (verb) defeat by a majority of votes | - |
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parthenote | (noun) a cell resulting from parthenogenesis | - |
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peyote | (noun) the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons | Synonyms: mescaline |
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(noun) a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons | Synonyms: Lophophora williamsii, mescal, mezcal |
polymastigote | (noun) flagellates with several flagella | - |
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procaryote | (noun) a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma | Synonyms: prokaryote |
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prokaryote | (noun) a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma | Synonyms: procaryote |
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promote | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, push |
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(verb) change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent | - |
(verb) be changed for a superior chess or checker piece | - |
(verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, raise, upgrade |
(verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, further |
quote | (noun) a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else | Synonyms: inverted comma, quotation mark |
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(noun) a passage or expression that is quoted or cited | Synonyms: citation, quotation |
(verb) repeat a passage from | Synonyms: cite |
(verb) refer to for illustration or proof | Synonyms: cite |
(verb) put quote marks around | - |
(verb) name the price of | - |
ravigote | (noun) veloute sauce seasoned with chopped chervil, chives, tarragon, shallots and capers | Synonyms: ravigotte |
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remote | (adjective) far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship | Synonyms: distant |
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(adjective) inaccessible and sparsely populated | Synonyms: outback |
(adjective) unlikely to occur | Synonyms: outside |
(adjective) located far away spatially | Synonyms: distant |
(adjective) separate or apart in time | Synonyms: distant, removed |
(noun) a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance | Synonyms: remote control |
requote | (verb) to quote again | - |
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rote | (noun) memorization by repetition | Synonyms: rote learning |
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sapote | (noun) brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet | Synonyms: mammee, marmalade plum |
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(noun) tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum | Synonyms: Calocarpum zapota, mammee, marmalade tree, Pouteria zapota |
sheepcote | (noun) a pen for sheep | Synonyms: fold, sheep pen, sheepfold |
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shote | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piggy, piglet, shoat |
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tote | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: carryall, holdall, tote bag |
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(verb) carry with difficulty | Synonyms: lug, tug |
underquote | (verb) quote a price lower than that quoted by (another seller) | - |
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(verb) offer for sale at a price lower than the market price | - |
upvote | (noun) A positive vote on a social media website | - |
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(verb) To vote positively on a social media website | - |
vote | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, balloting, voting |
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(noun) the opinion of a group as determined by voting | - |
(noun) a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment | Synonyms: right to vote, suffrage |
(noun) the total number of voters who participated | Synonyms: voter turnout |
(noun) a body of voters who have the same interests | - |
(verb) be guided by in voting | - |
(verb) express one's choice or preference by vote | - |
(verb) express a choice or opinion | - |
(verb) bring into existence or make available by vote | - |
(verb) express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote | - |
zoomastigote | (noun) flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics | Synonyms: zooflagellate |
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zygote | (noun) (genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell) | Synonyms: fertilized ovum |
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