abiogenist | (noun) a believer in abiogenesis | - |
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abolitionist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: emancipationist |
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abortionist | (noun) a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies | - |
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abreast | (adjective) being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge | Synonyms: au courant, au fait, up on |
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(adverb) alongside each other, facing in the same direction | - |
absolutist | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutistic |
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(noun) one who advocates absolutism | - |
abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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(noun) a painter of abstract pictures | Synonyms: abstract artist |
accompanist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanyist |
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accompanyist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanist |
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accordionist | (noun) a musician who plays the accordion | - |
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accost | (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: hook, solicit |
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(verb) speak to someone | Synonyms: address, come up to |
accurst | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accursed, maledict |
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activist | (adjective) advocating or engaged in activism | Synonyms: activistic |
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(noun) a militant reformer | Synonyms: militant |
adjust | (verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard | Synonyms: correct, set |
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(verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions | Synonyms: adapt, conform |
(verb) make correspondent or conformable | - |
(verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: align, aline, line up |
(verb) decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim | - |
adust | (adjective) burned brown by the sun | - |
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(adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked |
aerialist | (noun) an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze) | - |
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aetiologist | (noun) a specialist in the etiology of diseases | Synonyms: etiologist |
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afforest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: forest |
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aftermost | (adjective) located closest to the stern or tail | - |
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aghast | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: appalled, dismayed, shocked |
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agonist | (noun) (biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction | - |
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(noun) a muscle that contracts while another relaxes | - |
(noun) someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon) | - |
(noun) the principal character in a work of fiction | Synonyms: protagonist |
agriculturalist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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agriculturist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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agronomist | (noun) an expert in soil management and field-crop production | - |
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airburst | (noun) an explosion in the atmosphere | - |
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airpost | (noun) a system of conveying mail by aircraft | Synonyms: airmail |
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alarmist | (noun) a person who alarms others needlessly | - |
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alcahest | (noun) hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists | Synonyms: alkahest, universal solvent |
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alchemist | (noun) one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone | - |
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alecost | (noun) tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers; used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for potpourri or tea or flavoring; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: balsam herb, bible leaf, Chrysanthemum balsamita, costmary, mint geranium, Tanacetum balsamita |
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algebraist | (noun) a mathematician whose specialty is algebra | - |
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alienist | (noun) a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness | - |
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alkahest | (noun) hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists | Synonyms: alcahest, universal solvent |
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allergist | (noun) a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies | - |
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almost | (adverb) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but | Synonyms: about, most, near, nearly, nigh, virtually, well-nigh |
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alpinist | (noun) a mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs | - |
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altoist | (noun) a musician who plays the alto saxophone | Synonyms: alto saxophonist |
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altruist | (noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | Synonyms: philanthropist |
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ameloblast | (noun) a cell from which tooth enamel develops | - |
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amethyst | (adjective) of a moderate purple color | - |
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(noun) a transparent purple variety of quartz; used as a gemstone | - |
aminoplast | (noun) a plastic (synthetic resin) made from amino compounds; used as an adhesive and as a coating for paper and textiles | Synonyms: amino plastic, amino resin |
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amoralist | (noun) someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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amorist | (noun) one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love | - |
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anaesthetist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anesthesiologist, anesthetist |
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anagnost | (noun) a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church) | - |
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analogist | (noun) someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy | - |
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analyst | (noun) someone who is skilled at analyzing data | - |
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(noun) a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis | Synonyms: psychoanalyst |
(noun) an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions | - |
anapaest | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables | Synonyms: anapest |
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anapest | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables | Synonyms: anapaest |
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anarchist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: nihilist, syndicalist |
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anatomist | (noun) an expert in anatomy | - |
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anecdotist | (noun) a person skilled in telling anecdotes | Synonyms: raconteur |
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anesthesiologist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anaesthetist, anesthetist |
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anesthetist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anaesthetist, anesthesiologist |
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angiologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in angiology | - |
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angst | (noun) an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom | - |
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animist | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animistic |
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(noun) one who accepts the doctrine of animism | - |
annalist | (noun) a historian who writes annals | - |
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anomalist | (noun) someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases | - |
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antagonist | (noun) a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug | - |
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(noun) a muscle that relaxes while another contracts | - |
(noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, opponent, opposer, resister |
anthologist | (noun) an editor who makes selections for an anthology | - |
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anthropologist | (noun) a social scientist who specializes in anthropology | - |
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anticatalyst | (noun) (chemistry) a substance that retards a chemical reaction or diminishes the activity of a catalyst | - |
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antifeminist | (noun) someone who does not believe in the social or economic or political equality of men and women | - |
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antitrust | (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | Synonyms: antimonopoly |
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aorist | (noun) a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation | - |
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aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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apiarist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiculturist, beekeeper |
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apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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apologist | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: justifier, vindicator |
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arbalest | (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow | Synonyms: arbalist |
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arbalist | (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow | Synonyms: arbalest |
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(noun) archer who uses an arbalest | - |
arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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arborist | (noun) a specialist in treating damaged trees | Synonyms: tree surgeon |
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archaeologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture | Synonyms: archeologist |
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archaist | (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquarian, antiquary |
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(noun) a person who archaizes | - |
archeologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture | Synonyms: archaeologist |
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archivist | (noun) a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives | - |
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archpriest | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate |
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arianist | (noun) an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God) | - |
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armrest | (noun) a support for the arm | - |
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arrest | (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody |
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(noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
(verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: check, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
(verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, collar, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
(verb) attract and fix | Synonyms: catch, get |
(verb) cause to come to an abrupt stop | Synonyms: halt, hold |
arsonist | (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: firebug, incendiary |
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artist | (noun) a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination | Synonyms: creative person |
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assist | (noun) (sports) the act of enabling another player to make a good play | - |
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(noun) the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: aid, assistance, help |
(verb) act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive function | - |
(verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: attend, attend to, serve, wait on |
(verb) give help or assistance; be of service | Synonyms: aid, help |
astrologist | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologer |
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astrophysicist | (noun) an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies | - |
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atavist | (noun) an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism | Synonyms: throwback |
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atheist | (adjective) related to or characterized by or given to atheism | Synonyms: atheistic, atheistical |
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(noun) someone who does not believe in the existence of a god | - |
athirst | (adjective) (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous | Synonyms: hungry, thirsty |
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attest | (verb) authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity | - |
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(verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: certify, demonstrate, evidence, manifest |
(verb) give testimony in a court of law | Synonyms: bear witness, take the stand, testify |
(verb) establish or verify the usage of | - |
august | (adjective) profoundly honored | Synonyms: revered, venerable |
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(adjective) of or befitting a lord | Synonyms: grand, lordly |
automobilist | (noun) someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile | Synonyms: motorist |
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backblast | (noun) backfire from a recoilless weapon | Synonyms: back-blast |
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backmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: hindermost, hindmost, rearmost |
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backrest | (noun) a support that you can lean against while sitting | Synonyms: back |
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bacteriologist | (noun) a biologist who studies bacteria | - |
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ballast | (noun) any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship | - |
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(noun) an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps | Synonyms: light ballast |
(noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) | Synonyms: ballast resistor, barretter |
(noun) an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings | - |
(noun) coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads | - |
(verb) make steady with a ballast | - |
balloonist | (noun) someone who flies a balloon | - |
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bassist | (noun) a musician who play the bass viol | - |
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bassoonist | (noun) a musician who plays the bassoon | - |
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