| accompaniment | (noun) the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them | Synonyms: escort |
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| (noun) something added to complete or embellish or make perfect | Synonyms: complement |
| (noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: backup, musical accompaniment, support |
| (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: attendant, co-occurrence, concomitant |
| accompanist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanyist |
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| acetanilid | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: acetanilide, phenylacetamide |
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| acetanilide | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: acetanilid, phenylacetamide |
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| aeromechanics | (noun) the branch of mechanics that deals with the motion of gases (especially air) and their effects on bodies in the flow | Synonyms: aerodynamics |
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| afghani | (noun) the basic unit of money in Afghanistan | - |
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| agromania | (noun) an intense desire to be alone or out in the open | - |
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| alanine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins | - |
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| ani | (noun) black tropical American cuckoo | - |
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| anil | (noun) shrub of West Indies and South America that is a source of indigo dye | Synonyms: Indigofera anil, Indigofera suffruticosa |
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| (noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: indigo, indigotin |
| aniline | (noun) oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines | Synonyms: aminobenzine, aniline oil, phenylamine |
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| anima | (noun) (Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious | - |
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| animadversion | (noun) harsh criticism or disapproval | Synonyms: censure |
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| animal | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna |
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| animalcule | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalculum |
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| animalculum | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalcule |
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| animalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalization, brutalisation, brutalization |
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| animalism | (noun) preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites | Synonyms: physicality |
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| (noun) the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature | - |
| animality | (noun) the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect | Synonyms: animal nature |
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| animalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, brutalisation, brutalization |
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| (noun) a depiction in the form of an animal | - |
| animateness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: aliveness, liveness |
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| animation | (noun) the making of animated cartoons | - |
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| (noun) general activity and motion | Synonyms: liveliness |
| (noun) the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something | Synonyms: invigoration, vivification |
| (noun) the property of being able to survive and grow | Synonyms: vitality |
| (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification |
| (noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: aliveness, life, living |
| animatism | (noun) the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones | - |
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| animator | (noun) the technician who produces animated cartoons | - |
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| (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: energiser, energizer, vitaliser, vitalizer |
| animatronics | (noun) the construction of robots to look like animals (developed for Disneyland) | - |
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| anime | (noun) a style of animation developed in Japan, characterized by stylized colorful art and often adult themes | - |
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| (noun) a hard copal derived from an African tree | Synonyms: Zanzibar copal |
| (noun) any of various resins or oleoresins | Synonyms: gum anime |
| animism | (noun) the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls | - |
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| animist | (noun) one who accepts the doctrine of animism | - |
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| animosity | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animus, bad blood |
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| animus | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animosity, bad blood |
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| anion | (noun) a negatively charged ion | - |
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| anionic | (noun) a class of synthetic detergents in which the molecules do not ionize in aqueous solutions | Synonyms: anionic detergent, non-ionic detergent |
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| anise | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise seed, aniseed |
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| (noun) native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery | Synonyms: anise plant, Pimpinella anisum |
| aniseed | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise, anise seed |
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| aniseikonia | (noun) visual defect in which the shape and size of an ocular image differ in the two eyes | - |
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| anisette | (noun) liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed | Synonyms: anisette de Bordeaux |
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| anisogamete | (noun) either of a pair of unlike gametes especially those unlike in size | - |
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| anisogamy | (noun) (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size) | - |
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| anisometropia | (noun) difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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| anisotropy | (noun) the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions | - |
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| antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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| antinomianism | (noun) the theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture) | - |
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| aphanite | (noun) fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye | - |
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| arianist | (noun) an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God) | - |
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| authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| balanitis | (noun) inflammation of the head of the penis | - |
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| balletomania | (noun) extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets | - |
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| banian | (noun) a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India | Synonyms: banyan |
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| (noun) East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks | Synonyms: banian tree, banyan, banyan tree, East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan |
| banishment | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: proscription |
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| (noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) | Synonyms: Coventry, ostracism |
| banister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, bannister, handrail |
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| beanie | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beany |
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| bibliomania | (noun) preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books | - |
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| biriani | (noun) an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables | Synonyms: biryani |
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| biryani | (noun) an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables | Synonyms: biriani |
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| bohemianism | (noun) conduct characteristic of a bohemian | - |
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| botanical | (noun) a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves) | - |
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| botanist | (noun) a biologist specializing in the study of plants | Synonyms: phytologist, plant scientist |
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| campanile | (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: belfry |
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| canavanine | (noun) an amino acid found in the jack bean | - |
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| canicule | (noun) the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity | Synonyms: canicular days, dog days |
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| canid | (noun) any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles | Synonyms: canine |
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| canine | (noun) any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles | Synonyms: canid |
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| (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine tooth, cuspid, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth |
| caning | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: wicker, wickerwork |
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| canistel | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: eggfruit |
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| (noun) tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit | Synonyms: canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa |
| canister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: cannister, tin |
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| (noun) a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm | Synonyms: canister shot, case shot |
| charlatanism | (noun) the dishonesty of a charlatan | Synonyms: quackery |
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| chutzpanik | (noun) (Yiddish) a person characterized by chutzpa | - |
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| cleaning | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleansing, cleanup |
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| companion | (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, comrade, familiar, fellow |
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| (noun) one paid to accompany or assist or live with another | - |
| (noun) a traveler who accompanies you | Synonyms: fellow traveler, fellow traveller |
| companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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| companionableness | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionability |
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| companionship | (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: company, fellowship, society |
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| companionway | (noun) a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship | - |
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| cosmopolitanity | (noun) a state or quality of being cosmopolitan | - |
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| craniate | (noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | Synonyms: vertebrate |
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| craniologist | (noun) someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull | Synonyms: phrenologist |
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| craniology | (noun) the scientific study of the skulls of various human races | - |
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| craniometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring skull sizes | - |
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| craniometry | (noun) the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts | - |
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| craniotomy | (noun) a surgical opening through the skull | - |
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| cranium | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: braincase, brainpan |
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| culteranismo | (noun) an esoteric style of writing that attempted to elevate poetic language and themes by re-Latinizing them, using classical allusions, vocabulary, syntax, and word order. | Synonyms: Gongorismo |
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| cyanide | (noun) an extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid | - |
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| (noun) any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN | Synonyms: nitril, nitrile |
| cyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: kyanite |
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| danish | (noun) light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese | Synonyms: danish pastry |
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| decalcomania | (noun) the art of transferring designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface | - |
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| (noun) either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | Synonyms: decal |
| dehumanisation | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanization |
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| dehumanization | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanisation |
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| dihydroxyphenylalanine | (noun) amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain | Synonyms: dopa |
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| dipsomania | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: alcoholism, potomania |
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| dipsomaniac | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, lush, soaker, souse |
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| disorganisation | (noun) the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion | Synonyms: disorganization |
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| (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disarrangement, disorganization |
| disorganization | (noun) the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion | Synonyms: disorganisation |
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| (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disarrangement, disorganisation |
| egalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: equalitarianism |
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| egomania | (noun) an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs | - |
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| egomaniac | (noun) an abnormally egotistical person | - |
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| endocranium | (noun) membrane lining the inside of the skull | - |
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| epicranium | (noun) the muscle and aponeurosis and skin covering the cranium | - |
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| epicureanism | (noun) a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers | - |
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| equalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: egalitarianism |
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