keelson | (noun) a longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it | - |
---|
keen | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
---|
(adjective) intense or sharp | Synonyms: exquisite |
(adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
(adjective) having a sharp cutting edge or point | - |
(adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
(noun) a funeral lament sung with loud wailing | - |
(verb) express grief verbally | Synonyms: lament |
keenly | (adverb) in a keen or penetrating way | Synonyms: acutely |
---|
keenness | (noun) thinness of edge or fineness of point | Synonyms: sharpness |
---|
(noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, sharpness |
(noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, eagerness |
keep | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, dungeon |
---|
(noun) a cell in a jail or prison | Synonyms: hold |
(noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, livelihood, living, support, sustenance |
(verb) prevent (food) from rotting | Synonyms: preserve |
(verb) prevent the action or expression of | Synonyms: hold back, keep back, restrain |
(verb) stick to correctly or closely | Synonyms: maintain, observe |
(verb) maintain by writing regular records | Synonyms: maintain |
(verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: maintain, sustain |
(verb) hold and prevent from leaving | - |
(verb) retain possession of | Synonyms: hold on |
(verb) look after; be the keeper of; have charge of | - |
(verb) retain rights to | Synonyms: hold open, keep open, save |
(verb) maintain for use and service | Synonyms: maintain |
(verb) have as a supply | - |
(verb) store or keep customarily | - |
(verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: prevent |
(verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: continue, keep on, retain |
(verb) conform one's action or practice to | Synonyms: observe |
(verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: celebrate, observe |
(verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: hold, maintain |
(verb) supply with room and board | - |
(verb) maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger | Synonyms: preserve |
(verb) fail to spoil or rot | Synonyms: stay fresh |
(verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: continue, go along, go on, proceed |
(verb) to rear | - |
keeper | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: custodian, steward |
---|
(noun) someone in charge of other people | - |
keeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, safekeeping |
---|
(noun) conformity or harmony | - |
(noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: holding, retention |
keepsake | (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: relic, souvenir, token |
---|
keeshond | (noun) a spitz-like dog having a shaggy greyish coat and tightly curled tail originating in Holland | - |
---|
keg | (noun) small cask or barrel | - |
---|
(noun) the quantity contained in a keg | Synonyms: kegful |
kegful | (noun) the quantity contained in a keg | Synonyms: keg |
---|
keister | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
---|
keloid | (noun) raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair | Synonyms: cheloid |
---|
kelp | (noun) large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds | - |
---|
kelpie | (noun) an Australian sheepdog with pointed ears | - |
---|
(noun) (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders | Synonyms: kelpy |
kelpwort | (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, glasswort, kali, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
---|
kelpy | (noun) (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders | Synonyms: kelpie |
---|
kelter | (noun) in working order | Synonyms: kilter |
---|
kelvin | (noun) the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: K |
---|
kempt | (adjective) (of hair) neat and tidy | Synonyms: tidy |
---|
ken | (noun) range of what one can know or understand | Synonyms: cognizance |
---|
(noun) the range of vision | Synonyms: sight |
kenaf | (noun) valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation | Synonyms: bimli, bimli hemp, Bombay hemp, deccan hemp, Hibiscus cannabinus, Indian hemp, kanaf |
---|
(noun) fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus | Synonyms: deccan hemp |
kencur | (noun) a dried rhizome or its powdered form of Kaempferia galanga, used in cooking in Indonesia. | - |
---|
kennel | (noun) outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog | Synonyms: dog house, doghouse |
---|
(verb) put up in a kennel | - |
kenning | (noun) conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry | - |
---|
keno | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, bingo, lotto |
---|
kenogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis |
---|
kenosis | (noun) the concept of emptying one's own will and receive God's will, in Catholicism | - |
---|
kenotron | (noun) a type of vacuum tube formerly used as a high-voltage rectifier. | - |
---|
kentan | (noun) east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals | Synonyms: devil lily, Lilium lancifolium, tiger lily |
---|
kepi | (noun) a cap with a flat circular top and a visor | Synonyms: peaked cap, service cap, yachting cap |
---|
kept | (adjective) (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded | Synonyms: unbroken |
---|
keratalgia | (noun) pain in the cornea | - |
---|
keratectasia | (noun) abnormal bulging of the cornea of the eye | - |
---|
keratin | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein that occurs in the outer layer of the skin and in horny tissues such as hair, feathers, nails, and hooves | Synonyms: ceratin |
---|
keratinisation | (noun) organic process by which keratin is deposited in cells and the cells become horny (as in nails and hair) | Synonyms: keratinization |
---|
keratinise | (verb) become horny and impregnated with keratin | Synonyms: keratinize |
---|
(verb) convert into keratin | Synonyms: keratinize |
keratinization | (noun) organic process by which keratin is deposited in cells and the cells become horny (as in nails and hair) | Synonyms: keratinisation |
---|
keratinize | (verb) become horny and impregnated with keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
---|
(verb) convert into keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
keratitis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea causing watery painful eyes and blurred vision | - |
---|
keratoacanthoma | (noun) skin tumor that grows rapidly (especially in older people) and resembles a carcinoma but does not spread; it usually disappears spontaneously, often leaving a scar | - |
---|
keratocele | (noun) hernia of the cornea | - |
---|
keratoconjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva | - |
---|
keratoconus | (noun) abnormal cone-shaped protrusion of the cornea of the eye; can be treated by epikeratophakia | - |
---|
keratoderma | (noun) any skin disorder consisting of a growth that appears horny | Synonyms: keratodermia |
---|
keratodermia | (noun) any skin disorder consisting of a growth that appears horny | Synonyms: keratoderma |
---|
keratohyalin | (noun) hyaline in the large granules of the stratum granulosum | - |
---|
keratoiritis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea and the iris of the eye | - |
---|
keratomalacia | (noun) softening and drying and ulceration of the cornea resulting from vitamin A deficiency; symptom of cystic fibrosis or sprue | - |
---|
keratomycosis | (noun) fungal infection of the cornea | - |
---|
keratonosis | (noun) any abnormal condition of the outer skin (epidermis) | - |
---|
keratonosus | (noun) any disease of the cornea | - |
---|
keratoplasty | (noun) a surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor | Synonyms: corneal graft, corneal transplant |
---|
keratoscleritis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea and sclera of the eye | - |
---|
keratoscope | (noun) medical instrument to examine the cornea in order to detect irregularities in its anterior surface | - |
---|
keratoscopy | (noun) examination of the cornea with a keratoscope to detect irregularities in its anterior surface | - |
---|
keratosis | (noun) a skin condition marked by an overgrowth of layers of horny skin | - |
---|
keratotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the cornea | - |
---|
kerb | (noun) an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter) | Synonyms: curb, curbing |
---|
kerbstone | (noun) a paving stone forming part of a curb | Synonyms: curbstone |
---|
kerchief | (noun) a square scarf that is folded into a triangle and worn over the head or about the neck | - |
---|
kerfuffle | (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, to-do |
---|
kerion | (noun) ringworm infection of the hair follicles of the scalp and beard that usually results in a swelling that is covered with pustules and oozes fluid | - |
---|
kerite | (noun) a compound in which tar or asphalt combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber. | - |
---|
kern | (noun) the part of a metal type that projects beyond its body | - |
---|
(verb) remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters) | - |
(verb) furnish with a kern | - |
kernel | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
---|
(noun) a single whole grain of a cereal | - |
(noun) the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone | Synonyms: meat |
kernicterus | (noun) an abnormal accumulation of bile pigment in the brain and other nerve tissue; causes yellow staining and tissue damage | - |
---|
kernite | (noun) a light soft mineral consisting of hydrated sodium borate in crystalline form; an important source of boron | - |
---|
kerosene | (noun) a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters | Synonyms: coal oil, kerosine, lamp oil |
---|
kerosine | (noun) a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters | Synonyms: coal oil, kerosene, lamp oil |
---|
kerugma | (noun) preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church | Synonyms: kerygma |
---|
kerygma | (noun) preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church | Synonyms: kerugma |
---|
kestrel | (noun) small Old World falcon that hovers in the air against a wind | Synonyms: Falco tinnunculus |
---|
(noun) small North American falcon | Synonyms: American kestrel, Falco sparverius, sparrow hawk |
ketamine | (noun) a general anesthetic and tranquilizer (not a barbiturate) that is administered intravenously or intramuscularly; used mainly by veterinarians or for minor surgery with geriatric or pediatric patients; taken in large doses it causes hallucinations similar to those associated with the use of PCP | Synonyms: Ketalar, ketamine hydrochloride |
---|
ketch | (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost | - |
---|
ketchup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: catsup, cetchup, tomato ketchup |
---|
keteleeria | (noun) Asiatic conifers resembling firs | - |
---|
ketembilla | (noun) maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves | Synonyms: kitambilla, kitembilla |
---|
(noun) a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India | Synonyms: Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa, ketembilla tree, kitambilla, kitembilla |
ketoacidosis | (noun) acidosis with an accumulation of ketone bodies; occurs primarily in diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: diabetic acidosis |
---|
ketoaciduria | (noun) excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation | Synonyms: acetonuria, ketonuria |
---|
ketoheptose | (noun) A seven-carbon sugar possessing a ketone group. | - |
---|
ketohexose | (noun) a monosaccharide having six carbon atoms and a ketone group | - |
---|
ketone | (noun) any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals | - |
---|
ketonemia | (noun) an abnormal increase of ketone bodies in the blood as in diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: acetonemia, ketosis |
---|
ketonuria | (noun) excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation | Synonyms: acetonuria, ketoaciduria |
---|
ketoprofen | (noun) nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Orudis or Orudis KT or Oruvail) | Synonyms: Orudis, Orudis KT, Oruvail |
---|
ketorolac | (noun) nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Torodal) that is given only orally | Synonyms: Torodal |
---|
ketose | (noun) any monosaccharide sugar that contains a ketone group or its hemiacetal | - |
---|
ketosis | (noun) an abnormal increase of ketone bodies in the blood as in diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: acetonemia, ketonemia |
---|
ketosteroid | (noun) a steroid containing a ketone group | - |
---|
ketotetrose | (noun) A monosaccharide that has both a ketone and four carbons. | - |
---|
ketotriose | (noun) Any ketose having three carbon atoms; in reality, only dihydroxyacetone. | - |
---|
kettle | (noun) a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid | Synonyms: boiler |
---|
(noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettledrum, timpani, tympani, tympanum |
(noun) (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits | Synonyms: kettle hole |
(noun) the quantity a kettle will hold | Synonyms: kettleful |
kettledrum | (noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettle, timpani, tympani, tympanum |
---|
kettleful | (noun) the quantity a kettle will hold | Synonyms: kettle |
---|
keurboom | (noun) tree with odd-pinnate leaves and racemes of fragrant pink to purple flowers | Synonyms: Virgilia capensis, Virgilia oroboides |
---|
(noun) fast-growing roundheaded tree with fragrant white to deep rose flowers; planted as an ornamental | Synonyms: Virgilia divaricata |
key | (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, central, fundamental, primal |
---|
(noun) metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated | - |
(noun) a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed | - |
(noun) mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock) | Synonyms: winder |
(noun) the central building block at the top of an arch or vault | Synonyms: headstone, keystone |
(noun) pitch of the voice | - |
(noun) something crucial for explaining | - |
(noun) any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music | Synonyms: tonality |
(noun) a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access | - |
(noun) a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations | - |
(noun) a list of answers to a test | - |
(noun) (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court | Synonyms: paint |
(noun) a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida | Synonyms: cay, Florida key |
(noun) a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple | Synonyms: key fruit, samara |
(noun) a kilogram of a narcotic drug | - |
(verb) harmonize with or adjust to | - |
(verb) regulate the musical pitch of | - |
(verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, identify, key out, name |
(verb) vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key | - |
(verb) provide with a key | - |
keyboard | (noun) holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung | - |
---|
(noun) device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like | - |
keyboardist | (noun) a musician who plays a keyboard instrument | - |
---|
keycard | (noun) a plastic card that has a magnetically coded strip that is scanned in order to operate a mechanism | - |
---|