| abocclusion | (noun) the condition in which the upper teeth do not touch the lower teeth when biting | - |
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| abode | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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| (noun) any address at which you dwell more than temporarily | Synonyms: residence |
| abohm | (noun) a unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm | - |
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| abolishment | (noun) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | Synonyms: abolition |
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| abolition | (noun) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | Synonyms: abolishment |
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| abolitionism | (noun) the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery | - |
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| abolitionist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: emancipationist |
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| abomasum | (noun) the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place | Synonyms: fourth stomach |
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| abomination | (noun) an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence | - |
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| (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, detestation, execration, loathing, odium |
| (noun) a person who is loathsome or disgusting | - |
| abominator | (noun) one who hates or loathes | Synonyms: loather |
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| aboriginal | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aborigine, indigen, indigene, native |
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| aborigine | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, indigen, indigene, native |
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| abort | (noun) the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed | - |
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| aborticide | (noun) the act of destroying a fetus | Synonyms: feticide |
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| (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: abortifacient, abortion-inducing drug |
| abortifacient | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: aborticide, abortion-inducing drug |
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| abortion | (noun) termination of pregnancy | - |
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| (noun) failure of a plan | Synonyms: miscarriage |
| abortionist | (noun) a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies | - |
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| abortus | (noun) a human fetus whose weight is less than 0.5 kilogram when removed or expelled from the mother's body | - |
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| aboulia | (noun) a loss of will power | Synonyms: abulia |
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| above | (noun) an earlier section of a written text | - |
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| anabolism | (noun) the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy | Synonyms: constructive metabolism |
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| antimetabolite | (noun) an antineoplastic drug that inhibits the utilization of a metabolite | - |
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| baboo | (noun) used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr' | Synonyms: babu |
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| baboon | (noun) large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles | - |
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| billabong | (noun) a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high | - |
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| (noun) a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently | - |
| bugaboo | (noun) a source of concern | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, boogeyman, bugbear |
| cabochon | (noun) a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets | - |
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| caboodle | (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: bunch, lot |
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| caboose | (noun) a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train | Synonyms: cabin car |
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| (noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: cookhouse, galley, ship's galley |
| cabotage | (noun) navigation in coastal waters | - |
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| (noun) the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders | - |
| catabolism | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: destructive metabolism, dissimilation, katabolism |
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| collaboration | (noun) act of working jointly | Synonyms: coaction |
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| (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaborationism, quislingism |
| collaborationism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, quislingism |
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| collaborationist | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborator, quisling |
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| collaborator | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: cooperator, pardner, partner |
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| (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborationist, quisling |
| (noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: confederate, henchman, partner in crime |
| diabolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: demonolatry, devil-worship |
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| diabolism | (noun) a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan) | Synonyms: demonism, Satanism |
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| diabolist | (noun) an adherent of Satan or Satanism | Synonyms: Satanist |
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| elaborateness | (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaboration, intricacy, involution |
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| (noun) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated | Synonyms: ornateness |
| elaboration | (noun) developing in intricate and painstaking detail | Synonyms: working out |
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| (noun) addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail | Synonyms: amplification |
| (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, intricacy, involution |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: enlargement, expansion |
| (noun) the result of improving something | Synonyms: refinement |
| gadabout | (noun) a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship | - |
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| hemimetabolism | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetaboly, hemimetamorphosis |
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| hemimetaboly | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetabolism, hemimetamorphosis |
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| heterometabolism | (noun) development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity | Synonyms: heterometaboly |
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| heterometaboly | (noun) development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity | Synonyms: heterometabolism |
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| holometabola | (noun) insects that undergo complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabola |
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| holometabolism | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometaboly |
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| holometaboly | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometabolism |
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| jaboncillo | (noun) evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | Synonyms: China tree, chinaberry, false dogwood, Sapindus saponaria |
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| jabot | (noun) a ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirt | - |
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| jaboticaba | (noun) tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil | - |
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| (noun) small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches | Synonyms: jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria cauliflora |
| jigaboo | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: nigga, nigger, nigra |
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| kabob | (noun) cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables | Synonyms: kebab, shish kebab |
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| katabolism | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: catabolism, destructive metabolism, dissimilation |
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| knockabout | (noun) a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit | - |
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| labor | (noun) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | Synonyms: labour, toil |
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| (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labour, project, task, undertaking |
| (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labour, proletariat, working class |
| (noun) an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement | Synonyms: labor movement, labour, trade union movement |
| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
| laboratory | (noun) a workplace for the conduct of scientific research | Synonyms: lab, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratory |
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| (noun) a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation | Synonyms: testing ground |
| laborer | (noun) someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | Synonyms: jack, labourer, manual laborer |
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| laboriousness | (noun) the quality of requiring extended effort | Synonyms: operoseness, toilsomeness |
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| labour | (noun) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | Synonyms: labor, toil |
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| (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, project, task, undertaking |
| (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, proletariat, working class |
| (noun) an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement | Synonyms: labor, labor movement, trade union movement |
| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
| labourer | (noun) someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | Synonyms: jack, laborer, manual laborer |
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| lavabo | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, wash-hand basin, washbasin, washbowl |
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| layabout | (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, idler, loafer |
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| marabou | (noun) large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments | Synonyms: Leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou stork, marabout |
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| (noun) the downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments | - |
| marabout | (noun) large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments | Synonyms: Leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou, marabou stork |
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| metabola | (noun) insects that undergo complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabola |
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| metabolism | (noun) the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life | Synonyms: metabolic process |
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| (noun) the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals | Synonyms: metamorphosis |
| metabolite | (noun) any substance involved in metabolism (either as a product of metabolism or as necessary for metabolism) | - |
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| nabob | (noun) a wealthy man (especially one who made his fortune in the Orient) | - |
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| (noun) a governor in India during the Mogul empire | Synonyms: nawab |
| naboom | (noun) small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra | Synonyms: cactus euphorbia, Euphorbia ingens |
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| parabola | (noun) a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve | - |
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| parabolograph | (noun) An outdated instrument for drawing parabolas. | - |
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| paraboloid | (noun) a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis | - |
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| peekaboo | (noun) a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo! | Synonyms: bopeep |
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| raceabout | (noun) a small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail | - |
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| roundabout | (noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: circle, rotary, traffic circle |
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| (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, whirligig |
| roustabout | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: deckhand |
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| runabout | (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: roadster, two-seater |
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| sabot | (noun) footwear usually with wooden soles | Synonyms: clog, geta, patten |
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| (noun) a shoe carved from a single block of wood | Synonyms: wooden shoe |
| sabotage | (noun) a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged | - |
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| saboteur | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: diversionist, wrecker |
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| (noun) a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader | Synonyms: fifth columnist |
| seaboard | (noun) the shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort | Synonyms: seaside |
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| seaborgium | (noun) a transuranic element with atomic number 106 | Synonyms: atomic number 106, element 106, Sg |
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| strabotomy | (noun) the surgical operation of cutting a muscle or tendon of the eye in order to correct strabismus | - |
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| taboo | (noun) an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion | Synonyms: tabu |
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| (noun) a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature | Synonyms: tabu |
| tabooli | (noun) a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat | Synonyms: tabbouleh |
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| tabor | (noun) a small drum with one head of soft calfskin | Synonyms: tabour |
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| taboret | (noun) a low stool in the shape of a drum | Synonyms: tabouret |
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| tabour | (noun) a small drum with one head of soft calfskin | Synonyms: tabor |
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| tabouret | (noun) a low stool in the shape of a drum | Synonyms: taboret |
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| thingamabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingmabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingumabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| turnabout | (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, reversion, turnaround |
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| (noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, reversal, turnaround |
| vagabond | (noun) anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place | - |
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| (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, drifter, floater, vagrant |
| vagabondage | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: roving, wandering |
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| walkabout | (noun) nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine | - |
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| (noun) a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally | - |
| (noun) a walking trip or tour | - |
| weeaboo | (noun) A white person, who is obsessed with Japanese culture, usually pejorative | Synonyms: weeb |
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| whereabouts | (noun) the general location where something is | - |
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