| algolagnia | (noun) sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain | Synonyms: algophilia |
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| alienage | (noun) the quality of being alien | Synonyms: alienism |
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| ambage | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: circumlocution, periphrasis |
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| ambages | (noun) (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action | - |
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| amperage | (noun) the strength of an electrical current measured in amperes | - |
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| anaglyph | (noun) anything carved in low relief | - |
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| (noun) moving or still pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed | - |
| anaglyphy | (noun) the process of producing pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed and viewed through spectacles with one red and one green lens | - |
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| anagnost | (noun) a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church) | - |
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| anagoge | (noun) a mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture) | - |
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| anagram | (noun) a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase | - |
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| anagrams | (noun) a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters | - |
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| anchorage | (noun) the act of anchoring | - |
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| (noun) place for vessels to anchor | Synonyms: anchorage ground |
| (noun) a fee for anchoring | - |
| (noun) the condition of being secured to a base | - |
| (noun) the provision of a sense of security or steadfastness | - |
| anlage | (noun) an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development | Synonyms: primordium |
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| antagonism | (noun) (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure | - |
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| (noun) an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility | - |
| (noun) the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors | - |
| (noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: enmity, hostility |
| antagonist | (noun) a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug | - |
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| (noun) a muscle that relaxes while another contracts | - |
| (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, opponent, opposer, resister |
| anthropophagite | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagus, cannibal, man-eater |
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| anthropophagus | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagite, cannibal, man-eater |
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| anthropophagy | (noun) human cannibalism; the eating of human flesh | - |
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| anticoagulant | (noun) medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood | Synonyms: anticoagulant medication, decoagulant |
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| anticoagulation | (noun) the administration of an anticoagulant drug to retard coagulation of the blood | - |
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| antiferromagnet | (noun) any material that has antiferromagnetic properties. | - |
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| antiferromagnetism | (noun) magnetic field creates parallel but opposing spins; varies with temperature | - |
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| apanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: appanage |
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| (noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: appanage |
| aphagia | (noun) loss of the ability to swallow | - |
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| appanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: apanage |
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| (noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: apanage |
| appendage | (noun) a part that is joined to something larger | - |
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| (noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: extremity, member |
| (noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: outgrowth, process |
| aragonite | (noun) a mineral form of crystalline calcium carbonate; dimorphic with calcite | - |
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| arbitrage | (noun) a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price | - |
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| arbitrager | (noun) someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) | Synonyms: arb, arbitrageur |
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| arbitrageur | (noun) someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) | Synonyms: arb, arbitrager |
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| archipelago | (noun) a group of many islands in a large body of water | - |
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| asparaginase | (noun) antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia | Synonyms: Elspar |
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| asparagine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid found in proteins and in many plants (e.g., asparagus) | - |
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| asparagus | (noun) edible young shoots of the asparagus plant | - |
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| (noun) plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable | Synonyms: Asparagus officinales, edible asparagus |
| assagai | (noun) the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa | Synonyms: assegai |
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| assemblage | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assembly, gathering |
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| (noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: hookup |
| (noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: gathering |
| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, collection |
| assuagement | (noun) the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced | Synonyms: alleviation, relief |
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| astragal | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: bead, beading, beadwork |
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| (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragalus, talus |
| astragalus | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragal, talus |
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| average | (noun) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | Synonyms: norm |
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| (noun) an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual | - |
| (noun) (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities | - |
| averageness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: mediocrity |
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| (noun) the state of being that is average; indicates normality but with connotations of mediocrity | - |
| backstage | (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: offstage, wing |
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| bacteriophage | (noun) a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria | Synonyms: phage |
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| badinage | (noun) frivolous banter | - |
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| bag | (noun) an activity that you like or at which you are superior | Synonyms: cup of tea, dish |
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| (noun) mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) | Synonyms: udder |
| (noun) a flexible container with a single opening | - |
| (noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: grip, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag |
| (noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: handbag, pocketbook, purse |
| (noun) a place that the runner must touch before scoring | Synonyms: base |
| (noun) an ugly or ill-tempered woman | Synonyms: old bag |
| (noun) the quantity that a bag will hold | Synonyms: bagful |
| (noun) the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person) | - |
| bagascosis | (noun) alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust) | Synonyms: bagassosis |
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| bagasse | (noun) the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants | - |
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| bagassosis | (noun) alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust) | Synonyms: bagascosis |
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| bagatelle | (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over | Synonyms: bar billiards |
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| (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: fluff, frippery, frivolity |
| (noun) a light piece of music for piano | - |
| bagel | (noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust | Synonyms: beigel |
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| bagful | (noun) the quantity that a bag will hold | Synonyms: bag |
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| baggage | (noun) cases used to carry belongings when traveling | Synonyms: luggage |
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| (noun) the portable equipment and supplies of an army | - |
| (noun) a worthless or immoral woman | - |
| baggageman | (noun) an attendant who takes care of baggage | - |
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| bagger | (noun) a machine for putting objects or substances into bags | - |
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| (noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: boxer, packer |
| bagging | (noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks | Synonyms: sacking |
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| bagman | (noun) a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money | - |
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| (noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
| bagnio | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| (noun) a building containing public baths | Synonyms: bathhouse |
| bagpipe | (noun) a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone | - |
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| bagpiper | (noun) someone who plays the bagpipe | Synonyms: piper |
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| baguet | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguette |
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| baguette | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguet |
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| bagwig | (noun) an 18th-century wig with hair pushed back into a bag. | - |
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| balagan | (noun) a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian) | - |
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| balibago | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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| bandage | (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: patch |
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| bandaging | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: binding, dressing |
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| bandwagon | (noun) a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band | - |
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| (noun) a popular trend that attracts growing support | - |
| baronage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: peerage |
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| baronetage | (noun) the state of a baronet | - |
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| (noun) the collective body of baronets | - |
| barrage | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling |
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| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: bombardment, onslaught, outpouring |
| battlewagon | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battleship |
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| beagle | (noun) a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound | - |
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| beagling | (noun) hunting rabbits with beagles | - |
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| beanbag | (noun) a small cloth bag filled with dried beans; thrown in games | - |
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| beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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| beverage | (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: drink, drinkable, potable |
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| birdcage | (noun) a cage in which a bird can be kept | - |
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| blockage | (noun) the act of blocking | Synonyms: closure, occlusion |
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| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction | Synonyms: obstruction |
| bondage | (noun) sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners | - |
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| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
| (noun) the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power | - |
| borage | (noun) an herb whose leaves are used to flavor sauces and punches; young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked | - |
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| (noun) hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach | Synonyms: Borago officinalis, tailwort |
| brag | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: bragging, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
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| braggadocio | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
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| braggart | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| bragger | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| bragging | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
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| breakage | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breaking |
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| (noun) reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use | - |
| (noun) the quantity broken | - |
| brewage | (noun) drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling | Synonyms: brew |
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| bricolage | (noun) construction of something by whatever material are available | - |
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| brokerage | (noun) place where a broker conducts his business | Synonyms: brokerage house |
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| (noun) a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller | Synonyms: brokerage firm, securities firm |
| (noun) the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties | - |
| cabbage | (noun) any of various types of cabbage | Synonyms: chou |
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| (noun) any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea, cultivated cabbage |
| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| cabbageworm | (noun) toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly | Synonyms: Pieris rapae |
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| 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 | - |
| cage | (noun) an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept | Synonyms: coop |
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| (noun) the net that is the goal in ice hockey | - |
| (noun) a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice | Synonyms: batting cage |
| (noun) something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement | - |
| cager | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, basketeer |
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| cagoule | (noun) lightweight parka; waterproof | - |
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| camouflage | (noun) the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance | Synonyms: disguise |
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| (noun) device or stratagem for concealment or deceit | - |
| (noun) fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background | Synonyms: camo |
| (noun) an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something | Synonyms: disguise |
| caragana | (noun) any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod | Synonyms: pea tree |
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| carageen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carrageen, carragheen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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| carnage | (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
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| carpetbag | (noun) traveling bag made of carpet; widely used in 19th century | - |
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