PORTMANTEAUS Synonyms

• the combination of two or more commercial companies

• a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities

• a coordinated sequence of chess moves

• a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock

• a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose

• an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)

• the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order

• the act of combining things to form a new whole

• composed of more than one part

• a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts

• (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight

• an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)

• a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.

• consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts

• composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony

• make more intense, stronger, or more marked

• put or add together

• calculate principal and interest

• create by mixing or combining

• combine so as to form a whole; mix

• an occurrence that involves the production of a union

• the state of being combined into one body

• the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words

• a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy

• the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept

• correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization

• the act of fusing (or melting) together

• a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)

• a composite of mixed origin

• (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species

• a car which runs on two power sources, usually an internal combustion engine and an electronic motor

• produced by crossbreeding

• (chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding)

• any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients

• a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

• an event that combines things in a mixture

• the act of mixing together

• the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds)

• the combination of ideas into a complex whole

• reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

• of trade unions

• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

• the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

• the state of being joined or united or linked

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

• a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

• a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

• the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

• a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

• the act of making or becoming a single unit

• being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War

• a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings

• liberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times (1809-1898)

• a large travelling bag made of stiff leather

• a large travelling bag made of stiff leather