abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
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(noun) a novice learning the rudiments of some subject | - |
actiniarian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actinian |
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agrarian | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agricultural, farming |
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antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
(noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquary, archaist |
apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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archosaurian | (adjective) of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria | - |
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(noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts | Synonyms: archosaur, archosaurian reptile |
authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
(noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
barbarian | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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(noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: savage |
(noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: boor, churl, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
caesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, cesarean, cesarian |
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(noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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(noun) someone who is at least 100 years old | - |
cesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarean |
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(noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian section |
cnidarian | (noun) radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | Synonyms: coelenterate |
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contrarian | (noun) an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors | - |
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cyprian | (adjective) resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus | - |
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(noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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durian | (noun) huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts | - |
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(noun) tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind | Synonyms: durian tree, Durio zibethinus, durion |
egalitarian | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: classless |
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(noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: equalitarian |
equalitarian | (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: egalitarian |
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equestrian | (adjective) of or relating to or featuring horseback riding | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or composed of knights | - |
(noun) a person skilled in equitation | Synonyms: horseback rider |
eutherian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria | - |
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(noun) mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | Synonyms: eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal |
grammarian | (noun) a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax | Synonyms: syntactician |
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historian | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historiographer |
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holothurian | (noun) echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders | Synonyms: sea cucumber |
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humanitarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism | - |
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(adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanistic |
(noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
(noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
infusorian | (noun) any member of the subclass Infusoria | - |
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lapidarian | (adjective) inscribed on stone | - |
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latitudinarian | (adjective) unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) | Synonyms: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical |
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(noun) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) | - |
libertarian | (noun) someone who believes the doctrine of free will | - |
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(noun) an advocate of libertarianism | - |
librarian | (noun) a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services | Synonyms: bibliothec |
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megatherian | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian mammal, megatheriid |
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metatherian | (noun) primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas | - |
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millenarian | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: chiliastic |
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(noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarist |
necessitarian | (noun) someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will | - |
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nonagenarian | (adjective) being from 90 to 99 years old | - |
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(noun) someone whose age is in the nineties | - |
nonsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: unsectarian |
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octogenarian | (adjective) being from 80 to 89 years old | - |
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(noun) someone whose age is in the eighties | - |
ovarian | (adjective) of or involving the ovaries | - |
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parliamentarian | (noun) an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures | - |
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pedestrian | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, prosaic, prosy |
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(noun) a person who travels by foot | Synonyms: footer, walker |
planarian | (noun) free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | Synonyms: planaria |
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platitudinarian | (noun) a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes | - |
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praetorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, pretorial, pretorian |
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predestinarian | (adjective) of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination | - |
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(noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist |
prelapsarian | (adjective) of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve | - |
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pretorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorial |
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proletarian | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat | - |
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(noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: prole, worker |
prototherian | (noun) primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea | - |
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radiolarian | (noun) protozoa with amoeba-like bodies and radiating filamentous pseudopods | - |
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riparian | (adjective) of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream | - |
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salutatorian | (noun) a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises | Synonyms: salutatory speaker |
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saurian | (adjective) of or relating to lizards | Synonyms: lacertilian |
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(noun) any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs | - |
sectarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects | - |
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(noun) a member of a sect | Synonyms: sectarist, sectary |
seminarian | (noun) a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary) | Synonyms: seminarist |
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septuagenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the seventies | - |
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sertularian | (noun) feathery colony of long-branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps | - |
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sexagenarian | (adjective) being from 60 to 69 years old | - |
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(noun) someone whose age is in the sixties | - |
solitudinarian | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitary, troglodyte |
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stentorian | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: booming |
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tellurian | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: telluric, terrene, terrestrial |
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(noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, worldling |
titanosaurian | (noun) amphibious quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur with a long thin neck and whiplike tail; of the Cretaceous mostly in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: titanosaur |
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totalitarian | (adjective) of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life | Synonyms: totalistic |
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(adjective) characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control | - |
(noun) an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government | - |
unsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: nonsectarian |
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utilitarian | (adjective) having a useful function | Synonyms: useful |
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(adjective) having utility often to the exclusion of values | - |
(noun) someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility | - |
valedictorian | (noun) the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement | Synonyms: valedictory speaker |
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valerian | (noun) a plant of the genus Valeriana having lobed or dissected leaves and cymose white or pink flowers | - |
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valetudinarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian | Synonyms: valetudinary |
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(noun) weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health | - |
vegetarian | (noun) eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products | - |
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veterinarian | (noun) a doctor who practices veterinary medicine | Synonyms: vet, veterinary, veterinary surgeon |
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victorian | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced |
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vulgarian | (noun) a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth) | - |
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