ardour | (noun) intense feeling of love | Synonyms: ardor |
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(noun) a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause) | Synonyms: ardor, elan, zeal |
(noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire |
areolar | (adjective) relating to or like or divided into areolae | Synonyms: areolate |
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argentinosaur | (noun) huge herbivorous dinosaur of Cretaceous found in Argentina | - |
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arguer | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: debater |
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armchair | (noun) chair with a support on each side for arms | - |
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armiger | (noun) a squire carrying the armor of a knight | Synonyms: armor-bearer |
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(noun) a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms | - |
armor | (noun) tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant | Synonyms: armour |
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(noun) protective covering made of metal and used in combat | Synonyms: armour |
(noun) a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles | Synonyms: armour |
(verb) equip with armor | Synonyms: armour |
armorer | (noun) a manufacturer of firearms | Synonyms: armourer |
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(noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armourer, artificer |
(noun) a worker skilled in making armor or arms | Synonyms: armourer |
armour | (noun) tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant | Synonyms: armor |
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(noun) protective covering made of metal and used in combat | Synonyms: armor |
(noun) a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles | Synonyms: armor |
(verb) equip with armor | Synonyms: armor |
armourer | (noun) a manufacturer of firearms | Synonyms: armorer |
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(noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armorer, artificer |
(noun) a worker skilled in making armor or arms | Synonyms: armorer |
arouser | (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: rouser, waker |
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arranger | (noun) a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise | Synonyms: organiser, organizer |
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(noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, transcriber |
arrester | (noun) a restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier | Synonyms: arrester hook |
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arriver | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, comer |
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arrogator | (noun) a person who through conceit makes pretentious claims to rights or advantages that he or she is not entitled to or to qualities that he or she does not possess | - |
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arteriolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving arterioles | - |
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articular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the joints of the body | Synonyms: articulary |
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articulator | (noun) a movable speech organ | - |
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(noun) someone who pronounces words | - |
artificer | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artisan, craftsman, journeyman |
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(noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: discoverer, inventor |
(noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armorer, armourer |
ascender | (noun) (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who ascends | - |
ashlar | (noun) a rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes | - |
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asker | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner |
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asper | (noun) 20 aspers equal 1 kurus in Turkey | - |
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asphyxiator | (noun) a manually operated device for extinguishing small fires | Synonyms: extinguisher, fire extinguisher |
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aspirator | (noun) a pump that draws air or another gas through a liquid | - |
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aspirer | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee |
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assassinator | (noun) a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed | Synonyms: assassin, bravo |
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assaulter | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assailant, attacker |
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assayer | (noun) an analyst who assays (performs chemical tests on) metals | - |
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assembler | (noun) a program to convert assembly language into machine language | Synonyms: assembly program |
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assenter | (noun) a person who assents | - |
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asserter | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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assessor | (noun) an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it | Synonyms: tax assessor |
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asseverator | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, avower, declarer |
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assignor | (noun) (law) the party who makes an assignment | - |
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assimilator | (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: learner, scholar, student |
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aster | (noun) star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis | - |
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(noun) any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers | - |
astir | (adjective) on the move | Synonyms: about |
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(adjective) out of bed | Synonyms: up |
astragalar | (adjective) of or relating to the anklebone | - |
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astrogator | (noun) the navigator of a spacecraft | - |
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astrologer | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologist |
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astronomer | (noun) a physicist who studies astronomy | Synonyms: stargazer, uranologist |
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astylar | (adjective) lacking columns or pillars | - |
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asunder | (adjective) widely separated especially in space | - |
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(adverb) into parts or pieces | Synonyms: apart |
atar | (noun) essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers | Synonyms: athar, attar, ottar |
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atelier | (noun) a studio especially for an artist or designer | Synonyms: artist's workroom |
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athanor | (noun) a furnace that feeds itself so as to maintain a uniform temperature; used by alchemists | - |
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athar | (noun) essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers | Synonyms: atar, attar, ottar |
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atmometer | (noun) an instrument that measures rate of evaporation of water | Synonyms: evaporometer |
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atomiser | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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atomizer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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atrioventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: auriculoventricular |
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attacker | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assailant, assaulter |
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attainder | (noun) cancellation of civil rights | Synonyms: civil death |
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attar | (noun) essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers | Synonyms: atar, athar, ottar |
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attemper | (verb) modify the temperature of | - |
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attempter | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: essayer, trier |
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attender | (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attendant, tender |
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(noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendant, attendee, meeter |
(noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: auditor, hearer, listener |
attenuator | (noun) an electrical device for attenuating the strength of an electrical signal | - |
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attestator | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestor, witness |
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attester | (noun) someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something | Synonyms: attestant |
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attestor | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestator, witness |
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attracter | (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attraction, attractive feature, attractor, magnet |
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(noun) (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system | Synonyms: attractor |
(noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attraction, attractor, draw, drawing card |
attractor | (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, attractive feature, magnet |
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(noun) (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system | Synonyms: attracter |
(noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, draw, drawing card |
auctioneer | (noun) an agent who conducts an auction | - |
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(verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction, auction off |
audiometer | (noun) an instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing | Synonyms: sonometer |
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auditor | (noun) a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization | - |
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(noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, hearer, listener |
(noun) a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit | - |
auger | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: gimlet, screw auger, wimble |
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(noun) a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes | Synonyms: plumber's snake, snake |
augur | (noun) (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy | Synonyms: auspex |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
(verb) predict from an omen | - |
auricular | (adjective) of or relating to near the ear | Synonyms: otic |
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(adjective) pertaining to an auricle of the heart | - |
(adjective) relating to or perceived by or shaped like the organ of hearing | - |
auriculoventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: atrioventricular |
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auteur | (noun) a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works | - |
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authenticator | (noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: appraiser |
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author | (noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | Synonyms: writer |
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(noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: generator, source |
(verb) be the author of | - |
authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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authorizer | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authoriser |
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autobiographer | (noun) someone who writes their own biography | - |
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autoinjector | (noun) a hypodermic syringe to use in injecting yourself with a liquid | - |
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autoloader | (noun) a firearm that reloads itself | Synonyms: self-loader |
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automaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, car maker, car manufacturer, carmaker |
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avascular | (adjective) without blood vessels | - |
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avatar | (noun) the manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form | - |
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(noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: embodiment, incarnation |
avenger | (noun) someone who takes vengeance | Synonyms: retaliator |
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aver | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, avow, swan, swear, verify |
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(verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, say |
aviator | (noun) someone who operates an aircraft | Synonyms: aeronaut, flier, flyer |
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avower | (noun) someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly | - |
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(noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, declarer |
avuncular | (adjective) being or relating to an uncle | - |
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(adjective) resembling an uncle in kindness or indulgence | - |
babbler | (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: cackler |
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(noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
babyminder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, minder |
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babysitter | (noun) a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home | Synonyms: baby-sitter, sitter |
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bachelor | (noun) a man who has never been married | Synonyms: unmarried man |
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(noun) a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon | Synonyms: bachelor-at-arms, knight bachelor |
(verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bach |
bacillar | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillary |
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(adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillary, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
backbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader | - |
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backbiter | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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backdoor | (noun) a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position) | Synonyms: back door |
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(noun) an entrance at the rear of a building | Synonyms: back door, back entrance |
(noun) an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains | Synonyms: back door |
backer | (noun) someone who provides financial support for some venture | Synonyms: angel |
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backgrounder | (noun) a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy | - |
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backhander | (noun) a backhanded blow | - |
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backpacker | (noun) a hiker who wears a backpack | Synonyms: packer |
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backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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