topographic | (adjective) concerned with topography | Synonyms: topographical |
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topographical | (adjective) concerned with topography | Synonyms: topographic |
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topographically | (adverb) with regard to topography | - |
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topography | (noun) the configuration of a surface and the relations among its man-made and natural features | - |
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(noun) precise detailed study of the surface features of a region | - |
topolatry | (noun) the worship of places | Synonyms: place-worship |
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topologic | (adjective) of or relating to topology | Synonyms: topological |
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topological | (adjective) of or relating to topology | Synonyms: topologic |
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topologically | (adverb) from the point of view of topology | - |
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topology | (noun) the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions | Synonyms: analysis situs |
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(noun) the study of anatomy based on regions or divisions of the body and emphasizing the relations between various structures (muscles and nerves and arteries etc.) in that region | Synonyms: regional anatomy, topographic anatomy |
(noun) topographic study of a given place (especially the history of the place as indicated by its topography) | - |
(noun) the configuration of a communication network | Synonyms: network topology |
toponomy | (noun) the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language | Synonyms: toponymy |
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(noun) the nomenclature of regional anatomy | Synonyms: toponymy |
toponym | (noun) the name by which a geographical place is known | Synonyms: place name |
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toponymy | (noun) the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language | Synonyms: toponomy |
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(noun) the nomenclature of regional anatomy | Synonyms: toponomy |
topos | (noun) a traditional theme or motif or literary convention | - |
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topped | (adjective) having a top of a specified character | - |
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topper | (noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: beaver, dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat |
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(noun) a woman's short coat | - |
(noun) an exceedingly good witticism that surpasses all that have gone before | - |
(noun) a worker who cuts tops off (of trees or vegetables etc.) | - |
(noun) a worker who makes or adds the top to something | - |
(noun) the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others | Synonyms: best |
topping | (adjective) excellent; best possible | Synonyms: top-flight, top-hole |
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(noun) a flavorful addition on top of a dish | - |
toppingly | (adverb) (used as an intensifier) excellently | Synonyms: marvellously, marvelously, superbly, terrifically, wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously |
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topple | (verb) fall down, as if collapsing | Synonyms: tumble |
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(verb) cause to topple or tumble by pushing | Synonyms: tip, tumble |
tops | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch |
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topsail | (noun) a sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast | - |
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topside | (noun) (usually plural) weather deck; the part of a ship's hull that is above the waterline | - |
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topsoil | (noun) the layer of soil on the surface | Synonyms: surface soil |
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topspin | (noun) forward spin (usually of a moving ball) that is imparted by an upward stroke | - |
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toque | (noun) a small round woman's hat | Synonyms: pillbox, turban |
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(noun) a tall white hat with a pouched crown; worn by chefs | - |
tor | (noun) a high rocky hill | - |
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(noun) a prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill | - |
torch | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: flashlight |
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(noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowlamp, blowtorch |
(noun) a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance | - |
(noun) tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches | Synonyms: Aaron's rod, common mullein, flannel mullein, great mullein, Verbascum thapsus, woolly mullein |
(verb) burn maliciously, as by arson | - |
torchbearer | (noun) a leader in a campaign or movement | - |
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torchlight | (noun) light from a torch or torches | - |
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tore | (noun) commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column | Synonyms: torus |
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toreador | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: bullfighter |
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torero | (noun) a matador or one of the supporting team during a bull fight | - |
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torment | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: badgering, bedevilment, worrying |
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(noun) a severe affliction | Synonyms: curse |
(noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | Synonyms: agony, torture |
(noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: anguish, torture |
(noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: harassment |
(noun) unbearable physical pain | Synonyms: torture |
(verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: excruciate, torture |
(verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torture |
(verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag |
tormented | (adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain | Synonyms: anguished, tortured |
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(adjective) tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears | Synonyms: hag-ridden, hagridden |
tormenter | (noun) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings | Synonyms: teaser, tormentor |
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(noun) someone who torments | Synonyms: persecutor, tormentor |
tormentor | (noun) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings | Synonyms: teaser, tormenter |
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(noun) someone who torments | Synonyms: persecutor, tormenter |
torn | (adjective) disrupted by the pull of contrary forces | - |
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(adjective) having edges that are jagged from injury | Synonyms: lacerate, lacerated, mangled |
tornado | (noun) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive | Synonyms: crack, crack cocaine |
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(noun) a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground | Synonyms: twister |
tornillo | (noun) shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods | Synonyms: Prosopis pubescens, screw bean, screwbean, screwbean mesquite |
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toroid | (noun) a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle | Synonyms: torus |
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(noun) the doughnut-shaped object enclosed by a torus | - |
toroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a toroid; doughnut shaped | - |
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torpedo | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: crampfish, electric ray, numbfish |
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(noun) armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target | - |
(noun) a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead | - |
(noun) a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface | - |
(noun) an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas) | - |
(noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, wedge, zep |
(noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, triggerman |
(verb) attack or hit with torpedoes | - |
torpid | (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: dormant, hibernating |
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(adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: inert, sluggish, soggy |
torpidity | (noun) inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy | Synonyms: listlessness, torpidness, torpor |
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(noun) a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility | Synonyms: torpor |
torpidly | (adverb) in a daze; in a dazed manner | Synonyms: dazedly |
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torpidness | (noun) inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy | Synonyms: listlessness, torpidity, torpor |
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torpor | (noun) inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy | Synonyms: listlessness, torpidity, torpidness |
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(noun) a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility | Synonyms: torpidity |
torque | (noun) a twisting force | Synonyms: torsion |
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torr | (noun) a unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere; named after Torricelli | Synonyms: millimeter of mercury, mm Hg |
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torrent | (noun) a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: violent stream |
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(noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, waterspout |
(noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation |
torrential | (adjective) relating to or resulting from the action of a torrent | - |
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(adjective) pouring in abundance | - |
(adjective) resembling a torrent in force and abundance | - |
torrid | (adjective) extremely hot and dry | - |
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(adjective) emotionally charged and vigorously energetic | - |
(adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid |
torridity | (noun) extreme heat | - |
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torsion | (noun) a twisting force | Synonyms: torque |
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(noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, crookedness, tortuosity, tortuousness |
torsk | (noun) large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod | Synonyms: Brosme brosme, cusk |
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torso | (noun) the body excluding the head and neck and limbs | Synonyms: body, trunk |
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tort | (noun) (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought | Synonyms: civil wrong |
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torte | (noun) rich cake usually covered with cream and fruit or nuts; originated in Austria | - |
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tortellini | (noun) small ring-shaped stuffed pasta | - |
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tortfeasor | (noun) a party who has committed a tort | Synonyms: tort-feasor |
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torticollis | (noun) an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted | Synonyms: wryneck |
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tortilla | (noun) thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour | - |
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tortious | (adjective) of or pertaining to the nature of a tort | - |
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tortoise | (noun) usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid areas except Australia and Antarctica | - |
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tortoiseshell | (noun) a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings | Synonyms: calico cat, tortoiseshell-cat |
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(noun) brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles | Synonyms: tortoiseshell butterfly |
(noun) the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles | - |
tortricid | (noun) any of numerous small moths having lightly fringed wings; larvae are leaf rollers or live in fruits and galls | Synonyms: tortricid moth |
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tortrix | (noun) small Indian moth infesting e.g. tea and coffee plants | Synonyms: Homona coffearia, tea tortrix |
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(noun) California moth whose larvae live in especially oranges | Synonyms: Argyrotaenia citrana, orange tortrix |
tortuosity | (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, crookedness, torsion, tortuousness |
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tortuous | (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled |
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(adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends | Synonyms: twisting, twisty, voluminous, winding |
(adjective) not straightforward | - |
tortuously | (adverb) in a tortuous manner | - |
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(adverb) with twists and turns | - |
tortuousness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complicatedness, complication, knottiness |
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(noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, crookedness, torsion, tortuosity |
torture | (noun) the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason | Synonyms: torturing |
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(noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting |
(noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | Synonyms: agony, torment |
(noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: anguish, torment |
(noun) unbearable physical pain | Synonyms: torment |
(verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: excruciate, torment |
(verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torment |
tortured | (adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain | Synonyms: anguished, tormented |
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torturer | (noun) someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion) | - |
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torturesome | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous |
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torturing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturous |
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(noun) the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason | Synonyms: torture |
torturous | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing |
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torturously | (adverb) in a very painful manner | Synonyms: agonizingly, excruciatingly |
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torulose | (adjective) of a cylindrical or ellipsoid body; swollen and constricted at intervals | - |
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torus | (noun) commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column | Synonyms: tore |
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(noun) a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle | Synonyms: toroid |
tosh | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, twaddle |
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toss | (noun) (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team | Synonyms: flip, pass |
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(noun) the act of flipping a coin | Synonyms: flip |
(noun) an abrupt movement | - |
(verb) agitate | - |
(verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, pitch, sky |
(verb) throw carelessly | Synonyms: chuck |
(verb) lightly throw to see which side comes up | Synonyms: flip |
(verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about |
(verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss away, toss out |
tosser | (noun) someone who throws lightly (as with the palm upward) | - |
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(noun) terms of abuse for a masturbator | Synonyms: jerk-off, wanker |
tossup | (noun) an unpredictable phenomenon | Synonyms: even chance, toss-up |
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tostada | (noun) a flat tortilla with various fillings piled on it | - |
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(noun) a crisp flat tortilla | - |
tot | (noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: bambino, toddler, yearling |
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(noun) a small amount (especially of a drink) | - |
(verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot up, total, tote up |
total | (adjective) constituting the full quantity or extent; complete | Synonyms: entire, full |
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(adjective) complete in extent or degree and in every particular | Synonyms: full |
(noun) the whole amount | Synonyms: aggregate, sum, totality |
(noun) a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers | Synonyms: amount, sum |
(verb) damage beyond the point of repair | - |
(verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, tote up |
(verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, come, number |
totaled | (adjective) used of automobiles; completely demolished | Synonyms: totalled |
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totalisator | (noun) computer that registers bets and divides the total amount bet among those who won | Synonyms: pari-mutuel machine, totaliser, totalizator, totalizer |
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totalise | (verb) make into a total | Synonyms: totalize |
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totaliser | (noun) a calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions | Synonyms: adding machine, totalizer |
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(noun) computer that registers bets and divides the total amount bet among those who won | Synonyms: pari-mutuel machine, totalisator, totalizator, totalizer |
totalism | (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: absolutism, totalitarianism |
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totalistic | (adjective) of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life | Synonyms: totalitarian |
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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 | - |
totalitarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: absolutism, totalism |
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(noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, tyranny |
totality | (noun) the whole amount | Synonyms: aggregate, sum, total |
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(noun) the quality of being complete and indiscriminate | - |
(noun) the state of being total and complete | Synonyms: entireness, entirety, integrality |
totalizator | (noun) computer that registers bets and divides the total amount bet among those who won | Synonyms: pari-mutuel machine, totalisator, totaliser, totalizer |
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totalize | (verb) make into a total | Synonyms: totalise |
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totalizer | (noun) a calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions | Synonyms: adding machine, totaliser |
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(noun) computer that registers bets and divides the total amount bet among those who won | Synonyms: pari-mutuel machine, totalisator, totaliser, totalizator |
totalled | (adjective) used of automobiles; completely demolished | Synonyms: totaled |
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totally | (adverb) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely | Synonyms: all, altogether, completely, entirely, right, whole, wholly |
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