aromatize | (verb) fill or impregnate with an odor | Synonyms: aromatise, perfume |
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around | (adverb) in circumference | - |
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(adverb) in the area or vicinity | Synonyms: about |
(adverb) from beginning to end; throughout | Synonyms: round |
(adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: about, approximately, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
(adverb) used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction | Synonyms: about |
(adverb) by a circular or circuitous route | - |
(adverb) in a circle or circular motion | - |
(adverb) all around or on all sides | Synonyms: about |
(adverb) to a particular destination either specified or understood | - |
(adverb) in or to a reversed position or direction | Synonyms: about |
arousal | (noun) the act of arousing | Synonyms: rousing |
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(noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: foreplay, stimulation |
(noun) awakening from sleep | - |
(noun) a state of heightened physiological activity | - |
arouse | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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(verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
(verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
(verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
(verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
(verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: excite, sex, turn on, wind up |
(verb) to begin moving | Synonyms: stir |
aroused | (adjective) (of persons) excessively affected by emotion | Synonyms: emotional, excited, worked up |
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(adjective) aroused to action | - |
(adjective) emotionally aroused | Synonyms: stimulated, stirred, stirred up |
(adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: ablaze, aflame |
(adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: horny, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned on |
(adjective) brought to a state of great tension | Synonyms: wound up |
arouser | (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: rouser, waker |
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arpeggio | (noun) a chord whose notes are played in rapid succession rather than simultaneously | - |
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arpent | (noun) a former French unit of area; equal approximately to an acre | - |
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arquebus | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: hackbut, hagbut, harquebus |
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arrack | (noun) any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses | Synonyms: arak |
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arraign | (verb) accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy | - |
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(verb) call before a court to answer an indictment | - |
arraignment | (noun) a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment | - |
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arrange | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress, set |
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(verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: order, put, set up |
(verb) make arrangements for | Synonyms: fix up |
(verb) put into a proper or systematic order | Synonyms: set up |
(verb) adapt for performance in a different way | Synonyms: set |
(verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format | Synonyms: format |
(verb) plan, organize, and carry out (an event) | Synonyms: stage |
arranged | (adjective) disposed or placed in a particular kind of order | Synonyms: ordered |
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(adjective) deliberately arranged for effect | Synonyms: staged |
(adjective) organized or planned for | - |
arrangement | (noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arranging, transcription |
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(noun) the spatial property of the way in which something is placed | Synonyms: placement |
(noun) an organized structure for arranging or classifying | Synonyms: organisation, organization, system |
(noun) the thing arranged or agreed to | Synonyms: agreement |
(noun) a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments | Synonyms: musical arrangement |
(noun) an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging | - |
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 |
arranging | (noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arrangement, transcription |
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arrant | (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
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arras | (noun) a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs | Synonyms: tapestry |
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array | (noun) an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics | - |
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(noun) especially fine or decorative clothing | Synonyms: raiment, regalia |
(noun) an impressive display | - |
(noun) an orderly arrangement | - |
(verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking | Synonyms: align |
(verb) lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line | Synonyms: lay out, range, set out |
arrayed | (adjective) in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia | Synonyms: panoplied |
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arrears | (noun) an unpaid overdue debt | - |
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(noun) the state of being behind in payments | - |
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 |
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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arresting | (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: sensational, stunning |
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arrhythmia | (noun) an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart | Synonyms: cardiac arrhythmia |
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arrhythmic | (adjective) without regard for rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmical |
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(adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: jerking, jerky |
arrhythmical | (adjective) without regard for rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic |
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arrival | (noun) accomplishment of an objective | Synonyms: reaching |
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(noun) the act of arriving at a certain place | - |
(noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arriver, comer |
arrive | (verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: come, get |
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(verb) succeed in a big way; get to the top | Synonyms: get in, go far, make it |
arrivederci | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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arriver | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, comer |
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arriviste | (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart |
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arroba | (noun) a unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries | - |
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(noun) a liquid measure (with different values) used in some Spanish speaking countries | - |
arrogance | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness |
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arrogant | (adjective) having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride | Synonyms: chesty, self-important |
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arrogantly | (adverb) in an arrogant manner | - |
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arrogate | (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: assume, seize, take over, usurp |
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(verb) make undue claims to having | Synonyms: assign |
(verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: claim, lay claim |
arrogation | (noun) seizure by the government | Synonyms: confiscation |
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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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arrow | (noun) a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow | - |
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(noun) a mark to indicate a direction or relation | Synonyms: pointer |
arrowhead | (noun) the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow | - |
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arrowroot | (noun) white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch | Synonyms: American arrowroot, Maranta arundinaceae, obedience plant |
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(noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained | Synonyms: achira, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot |
(noun) a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant | - |
arrowsmith | (noun) a maker of arrows | - |
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arrowworm | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: chaetognath |
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arroyo | (noun) a stream or brook | - |
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arse | (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arsehole, asshole, bunghole |
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(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
arsehole | (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arse, asshole, bunghole |
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arsenal | (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
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(noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
(noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
arsenate | (noun) a salt or ester of arsenic acid | - |
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arsenic | (noun) a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and in various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar | Synonyms: As, atomic number 33 |
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(noun) a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer | Synonyms: arsenic trioxide, arsenous anhydride, arsenous oxide, ratsbane, white arsenic |
arsenical | (adjective) relating to or containing arsenic | - |
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(noun) a pesticide or drug containing arsenic | - |
arsenide | (noun) a compound of arsenic with a more positive element | - |
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arsenious | (adjective) relating to compounds in which arsenic is trivalent | - |
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arsenopyrite | (noun) a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic | Synonyms: mispickel |
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arsine | (noun) a poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare | - |
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arson | (noun) malicious burning to destroy property | Synonyms: fire-raising, incendiarism |
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arsonist | (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: firebug, incendiary |
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art | (noun) the creation of beautiful or significant things | Synonyms: artistic creation, artistic production |
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(noun) the products of human creativity; works of art collectively | Synonyms: fine art |
(noun) a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation | Synonyms: artistry, prowess |
(noun) photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication | Synonyms: artwork, graphics, nontextual matter |
artefact | (noun) a man-made object taken as a whole | Synonyms: artifact |
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artefactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artifactual |
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artemisia | (noun) any of various composite shrubs or herbs of the genus Artemisia having aromatic green or greyish foliage | - |
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arteria | (noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body | Synonyms: arterial blood vessel, artery |
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arterial | (adjective) of or involving or contained in the arteries | - |
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arterialise | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood | Synonyms: arterialize |
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arterialize | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood | Synonyms: arterialise |
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arteriectasia | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasis |
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arteriectasis | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasia |
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arteriogram | (noun) an X ray of an artery filled with a contrast medium | - |
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arteriography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of arteries | - |
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arteriola | (noun) one of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries | Synonyms: arteriole, capillary artery |
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arteriolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving arterioles | - |
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arteriole | (noun) one of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries | Synonyms: arteriola, capillary artery |
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arteriolosclerosis | (noun) sclerosis of the arterioles | - |
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arteriosclerosis | (noun) sclerosis of the arterial walls | Synonyms: arterial sclerosis, coronary-artery disease, hardening of the arteries, induration of the arteries |
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arteriosclerotic | (adjective) affected by arteriosclerosis | - |
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arteriovenous | (adjective) connecting an artery to a vein | - |
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arteritis | (noun) inflammation of an artery | - |
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artery | (noun) a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic | - |
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(noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body | Synonyms: arteria, arterial blood vessel |
artesian | (adjective) (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure | - |
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artful | (adjective) marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft | - |
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(adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: disingenuous |
artfully | (adverb) in a manner exhibiting art or skill | - |
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(adverb) in a disingenuous manner | Synonyms: disingenuously |
(adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily |
artfulness | (noun) the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage | - |
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arthralgia | (noun) pain in a joint or joints | - |
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arthralgic | (adjective) of or relating to arthralgia | - |
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arthritic | (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy |
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(noun) a person afflicted with arthritis | - |
arthritis | (noun) inflammation of a joint or joints | - |
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arthrocentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from a joint by centesis | - |
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arthrodesis | (noun) the surgical fixation of a joint which is intended to result in bone fusion | - |
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arthrogram | (noun) an X ray of a joint after the injection of a contrast medium | - |
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arthrography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of a joint after injection of radiopaque contrast medium; produces an arthrogram | - |
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arthromere | (noun) any of the segments in the body of a jointed animal like an arthropod | - |
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arthromeric | (adjective) of or relating to one of the body segments of jointed animals | - |
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arthropathy | (noun) a pathology or abnormality of a joint | - |
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arthroplasty | (noun) surgical reconstruction or replacement of a malformed or degenerated joint | - |
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arthropod | (noun) invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin | - |
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arthropodal | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodan, arthropodous |
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arthropodan | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodal, arthropodous |
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arthropodous | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodal, arthropodan |
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arthroscope | (noun) a type of endoscope that is inserted into a joint for visual examination | - |
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