| acclamation | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, eclat, plaudit, plaudits |
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| adamance | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: obduracy, unyieldingness |
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| adamant | (noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: diamond |
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| agama | (noun) small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World | - |
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| allamanda | (noun) a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes | - |
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| amadavat | (noun) red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: avadavat |
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| amah | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: housemaid, maid, maidservant |
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| (noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: wet-nurse, wet nurse, wetnurse |
| amalgam | (noun) a combination or blend of diverse things | - |
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| (noun) an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams | Synonyms: dental amalgam |
| amalgamation | (noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: merger, uniting |
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| amalgamator | (noun) a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies | - |
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| amanuensis | (noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) | Synonyms: shorthand typist, stenographer |
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| amaranth | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food | - |
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| (noun) seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America | - |
| amarelle | (noun) pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice | - |
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| (noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus caproniana |
| amaretto | (noun) an Italian almond liqueur | - |
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| amaryllis | (noun) bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers | - |
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| amastia | (noun) absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect) | - |
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| amateur | (noun) someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime | - |
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| (noun) an athlete who does not play for pay | - |
| amateurishness | (noun) something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency | - |
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| amateurism | (noun) the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money | - |
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| amativeness | (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
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| amatungulu | (noun) very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves | Synonyms: Carissa grandiflora, Carissa macrocarpa, natal plum |
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| amaurosis | (noun) partial or total loss of sight without pathology of the eye; caused by disease of optic nerve or retina or brain | - |
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| amazement | (noun) the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising | Synonyms: astonishment |
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| amazon | (noun) mainly green tropical American parrots | - |
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| (noun) a large strong and aggressive woman | Synonyms: virago |
| aquamarine | (noun) a shade of blue tinged with green | Synonyms: aqua, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, turquoise |
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| (noun) a transparent variety of beryl that is blue green in color | - |
| calamari | (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamary, squid |
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| calamary | (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamari, squid |
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| camachile | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: huamachil, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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| camail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: aventail, ventail |
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| camaraderie | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: chumminess, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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| camarilla | (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: cabal, faction, junto |
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| camas | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camash, camass, camosh, quamash |
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| camash | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camass, camosh, quamash |
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| camass | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camash, camosh, quamash |
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| cameraman | (noun) a photographer who operates a movie camera | Synonyms: camera operator, cinematographer |
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| carbamate | (noun) a salt (or ester) of carbamic acid | - |
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| catamaran | (noun) a boat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck | - |
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| chamaeleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue | Synonyms: chameleon |
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| chamarre | (noun) a fur-lined coat decorated with braid, worn in the sixteenth century. | Synonyms: chimer, simarre |
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| cyclamate | (noun) any salt or ester of cyclamic acid. | - |
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| cyclorama | (noun) a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene | Synonyms: diorama, panorama |
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| damage | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: harm, hurt, scathe |
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| (noun) any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right | Synonyms: legal injury, wrong |
| (noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: harm, impairment |
| (noun) loss of military equipment | Synonyms: equipment casualty |
| (noun) the amount of money needed to purchase something | Synonyms: price, terms |
| damages | (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, indemnification, indemnity, redress, restitution |
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| damar | (noun) any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine | Synonyms: dammar, dammar resin, gum dammar |
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| damascene | (noun) a design produced by inlaying gold or silver into steel | - |
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| damask | (noun) a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it | - |
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| (noun) a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern | - |
| declamation | (noun) vehement oratory | - |
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| (noun) recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric | - |
| defamation | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, denigration, slander |
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| (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, calumny, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
| desquamation | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: peeling, shedding |
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| diamagnet | (noun) a substance that exhibits diamagnetism | - |
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| diamagnetism | (noun) phenomenon exhibited by materials like copper or bismuth that become magnetized in a magnetic field with a polarity opposite to the magnetic force; unlike iron they are slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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| diamante | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: sequin, spangle |
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| (noun) fabric covered with glittering ornaments such as sequins or rhinestones | - |
| diorama | (noun) a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene | Synonyms: cyclorama, panorama |
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| docudrama | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: documentary, documentary film, infotainment |
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| drama | (noun) the quality of being arresting or highly emotional | - |
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| (noun) the literary genre of works intended for the theater | - |
| (noun) a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage | Synonyms: dramatic play, play |
| (noun) an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional | Synonyms: dramatic event |
| dramatics | (noun) participation in theatrical productions as an extracurricular activity | - |
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| (noun) the art of writing and producing plays | Synonyms: dramatic art, dramaturgy, theater, theatre |
| dramatisation | (noun) a dramatic representation | Synonyms: dramatization |
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| (noun) conversion into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatization |
| dramatist | (noun) someone who writes plays | Synonyms: playwright |
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| dramatization | (noun) a dramatic representation | Synonyms: dramatisation |
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| (noun) conversion into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatisation |
| dramaturgy | (noun) the art of writing and producing plays | Synonyms: dramatic art, dramatics, theater, theatre |
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| exclamation | (noun) an abrupt excited utterance | Synonyms: exclaiming |
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| (noun) an exclamatory rhetorical device | Synonyms: ecphonesis |
| (noun) a loud complaint or protest or reproach | - |
| glutamate | (noun) a salt or ester of glutamic acid | - |
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| grama | (noun) pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America | Synonyms: grama grass, gramma, gramma grass |
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| guama | (noun) tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers; used as shade for coffee plantations | Synonyms: Inga laurina |
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| hamadryad | (noun) large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja | Synonyms: king cobra, Naja hannah, Ophiophagus hannah |
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| (noun) the nymph or spirit of a particular tree | - |
| hamartia | (noun) the character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall | Synonyms: tragic flaw |
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| hamartoma | (noun) a focal growth that resembles a neoplasm but results from faulty development in an organ | - |
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| hamate | (noun) the wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers | Synonyms: hamate bone, os hamatum, unciform bone |
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| huamachil | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: camachile, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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| ilama | (noun) whitish tropical fruit with a pinkish tinge related to custard apples; grown in the southern United States | - |
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| (noun) tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit | Synonyms: Annona diversifolia, ilama tree |
| jacamar | (noun) tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage | - |
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| lama | (noun) a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism | - |
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| lamasery | (noun) a monastery for lamas | - |
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| llama | (noun) wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump | - |
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| mama | (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mumma, mummy |
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| meclofenamate | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Meclomen) used to treat arthritis | Synonyms: meclofenamate sodium, Meclomen |
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| melodrama | (noun) an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization | - |
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| meprobamate | (noun) a sedative and tranquilizer (trade name Miltown and Equanil and Meprin) used to treat muscle tension and anxiety | Synonyms: Equanil, Meprin, Miltown |
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| metamathematics | (noun) the logical analysis of mathematical reasoning | - |
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| militiaman | (noun) a member of the militia; serves only during emergencies | - |
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| pajama | (noun) (usually plural) loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers | Synonyms: jammies, pj's, pyjama |
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| (noun) a pair of loose trousers tied by a drawstring around the waist; worn by men and women in some Asian countries | Synonyms: pyjama |
| panorama | (noun) a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene | Synonyms: cyclorama, diorama |
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| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, prospect, scene, view, vista |
| paramagnet | (noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it | - |
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| paramagnetism | (noun) materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed | - |
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| proclamation | (noun) the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice | Synonyms: promulgation |
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| (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, annunciation, declaration |
| pyjama | (noun) (usually plural) loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers | Synonyms: jammies, pajama, pj's |
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| (noun) a pair of loose trousers tied by a drawstring around the waist; worn by men and women in some Asian countries | Synonyms: pajama |
| quamash | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camash, camass, camosh |
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| reclamation | (noun) rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course | Synonyms: reformation |
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| (noun) the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation | Synonyms: rehabilitation, renewal |
| (noun) the recovery of useful substances from waste products | - |
| rigamarole | (noun) a long and complicated and confusing procedure | Synonyms: rigmarole |
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| (noun) a set of confused and meaningless statements | Synonyms: rigmarole |
| salamander | (noun) any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed | - |
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| (noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, poker, stove poker |
| (noun) reptilian creature supposed to live in fire | - |
| saman | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, monkeypod, rain tree, zaman, zamang |
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| samara | (noun) a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple | Synonyms: key, key fruit |
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| samarium | (noun) a grey lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite | Synonyms: atomic number 62, Sm |
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| samarskite | (noun) a complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites | - |
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| scramasax | (noun) A single-edged knife or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons for fighting and hunting. | Synonyms: scramaseax, scramsax |
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| scramaseax | (noun) A single-edged knife or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons for fighting and hunting. | Synonyms: scramasax, scramsax |
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| seaman | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, tar |
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| seamanship | (noun) skill in sailing | - |
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| shaman | (noun) in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination | Synonyms: priest-doctor |
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| shamanism | (noun) an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans | Synonyms: Asian shamanism |
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| (noun) any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes) | - |