Nouns

Words that name people, places, things, or ideas

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conceptualism

noun

the doctrine that the application of a general term to vario...

concentricity

noun

the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one...

conceptualization

noun

an elaborated concept

conceptuality

noun

an elaborated concept

concertinist

noun

a person who plays the concertina

concessionaire

noun

someone who holds or operates a concession

concessioner

noun

someone who holds or operates a concession

conchologist

noun

a collector and student of mollusc shells

aalst

noun

a town in central Belgium

abstractor

noun

one who makes abstracts or summarizes information

achillea

noun

any of several plants of the genus Achillea native to Europe...

acridness

noun

extreme bitterness

adiantum

noun

cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some class...

adrenocorticotrophin

noun

a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stim...

aggrandisement

noun

the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or sco...

airpost

noun

a system of conveying mail by aircraft

airwave

noun

medium for radio and television broadcasting

akka

noun

a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Medite...

alborg

noun

a city and port in northern Jutland

alkyd

noun

a durable synthetic resin widely used in adhesives and paint...

alphabetisation

noun

the act of putting in alphabetical order

ampicillin

noun

semisynthetic penicillin (trade names Principen and Polycill...

antigonus

noun

a general of Alexander the Great and king of Macedonia; lost...

antimetabolite

noun

an antineoplastic drug that inhibits the utilization of a me...

antivenene

noun

an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the...

arabis

noun

annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America,...

arachis

noun

a genus of plants with pods that ripen underground (see pean...

ardea

noun

type genus of the Ardeidae: large New and Old World herons

arhus

noun

port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland

artaxerxes

noun

king of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in Jer...

asch

noun

United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (...

ascii

noun

(computer science) a code for information exchange between c...

ashbin

noun

a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected

asplenium

noun

in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiacea...

associateship

noun

the position of associate (as in an office or academy)

auchincloss

noun

United States writer (born in 1917)

aum

noun

a terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan an...

ayr

noun

a port in southwestern Scotland

b

noun

the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen

barany

noun

Austrian physician who developed a rotational method for tes...

barbadian

noun

a native or inhabitant of Barbados

barmbrack

noun

a rich currant cake or bun

bedrest

noun

confinement to bed continuously (as in the case of some sick...

behaviourism

noun

an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measura...

bellicoseness

noun

a natural disposition to fight

beneficiation

noun

crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or wast...

beroe

noun

delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores

betise

noun

a stupid mistake

birthrate

noun

the ratio of live births in an area to the population of tha...

bleriot

noun

French aviator who in 1909 made the first flight across the...