| apiarist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiculturist, beekeeper |
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| apiary | (noun) a shed containing a number of beehives | Synonyms: bee house |
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| apicalization | (noun) (phonetics) An articulatory feature of phones, usually consonants, produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue. | - |
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| apiculture | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: beekeeping |
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| apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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| apishamore | (noun) a saddle blanket made of buffalo hide | - |
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| capibara | (noun) pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | Synonyms: capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
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| capillarity | (noun) a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries | Synonyms: capillary action |
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| capillary | (noun) a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action | Synonyms: capillary tube, capillary tubing |
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| (noun) any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules | Synonyms: capillary vessel |
| capital | (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: cap, chapiter |
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| (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase |
| (noun) a seat of government | - |
| (noun) a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product | - |
| (noun) wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value | - |
| (noun) assets available for use in the production of further assets | Synonyms: working capital |
| capitalisation | (noun) the act of capitalizing on an opportunity | Synonyms: capitalization |
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| (noun) the sale of capital stock | Synonyms: capitalization |
| (noun) an estimation of the value of a business | Synonyms: capitalization |
| (noun) writing in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalization |
| capitalism | (noun) an economic system based on private ownership of capital | Synonyms: capitalist economy |
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| capitalist | (noun) a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) | - |
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| (noun) a conservative advocate of capitalism | - |
| capitalization | (noun) the act of capitalizing on an opportunity | Synonyms: capitalisation |
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| (noun) the sale of capital stock | Synonyms: capitalisation |
| (noun) an estimation of the value of a business | Synonyms: capitalisation |
| (noun) writing in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalisation |
| capitate | (noun) the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus | Synonyms: capitate bone, os capitatum |
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| capitation | (noun) a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person | - |
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| capitol | (noun) a building occupied by a state legislature | - |
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| capitula | (noun) a short scripture reading; done after a psalmody. | - |
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| capitulation | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: fall, surrender |
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| (noun) a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic | - |
| (noun) a document containing the terms of surrender | - |
| capitulum | (noun) a dense cluster of flowers or foliage | Synonyms: head |
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| (noun) fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn | Synonyms: ear, spike |
| (noun) an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree | - |
| capiz | (noun) marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell | Synonyms: Placuna placenta, window oyster, windowpane oyster |
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| chapiter | (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: cap, capital |
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| chincapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chinkapin, chinquapin |
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| chinkapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chincapin, chinquapin |
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| chinquapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chincapin, chinkapin |
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| (noun) shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts | Synonyms: Allegheny chinkapin, Castanea pumila, dwarf chestnut, eastern chinquapin |
| (noun) shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States | Synonyms: Castanea ozarkensis, Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin |
| clozapine | (noun) an antipsychotic drug (trade name Clozaril) used as a sedative and for treatment-resistant schizophrenia; known to have few side effects | Synonyms: Clozaril |
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| decapitation | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: beheading |
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| (noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: beheading |
| diapir | (noun) a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata | - |
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| dilapidation | (noun) the process of becoming dilapidated | Synonyms: ruin |
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| (noun) a state of deterioration due to old age or long use | Synonyms: decrepitude |
| elapid | (noun) any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres | Synonyms: elapid snake |
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| electrotherapist | (noun) someone who specializes in the treatment of disease by electricity | - |
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| escapism | (noun) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy | Synonyms: escape |
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| escapist | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: dreamer, wishful thinker |
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| fleapit | (noun) an old shabby movie theater | - |
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| landscaping | (noun) working as a landscape gardener | Synonyms: landscape gardening |
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| (noun) a garden laid out for esthetic effect | - |
| landscapist | (noun) someone who paints landscapes | - |
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| (noun) someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively | Synonyms: landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper |
| lapidarist | (noun) an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them | Synonyms: lapidary |
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| lapidary | (noun) a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | Synonyms: lapidist |
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| (noun) an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them | Synonyms: lapidarist |
| lapidation | (noun) the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death) | Synonyms: stoning |
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| lapidator | (noun) an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill) | Synonyms: stoner |
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| lapidist | (noun) a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | Synonyms: lapidary |
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| lapin | (noun) castrated male rabbit | - |
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| (noun) the fur of a rabbit | Synonyms: rabbit |
| leaping | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, saltation, spring |
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| loxapine | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade name Loxitane) used to treat schizophrenia | Synonyms: Loxitane |
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| mapinguari | (noun) supposed human-sized sloth-like creature reportedly sighted by Indians in the Amazon rain forest | - |
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| nevirapine | (noun) a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (trade name Viramune) used to treat AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: Viramune |
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| okapi | (noun) similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs | Synonyms: Okapia johnstoni |
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| overcapitalisation | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalization |
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| overcapitalization | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalisation |
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| papilla | (noun) a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather | - |
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| (noun) a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell | - |
| (noun) (botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf | - |
| papilledema | (noun) swelling of the optic disc (where the optic nerve enters the eyeball); usually associated with an increase in intraocular pressure | - |
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| papilloma | (noun) a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass | Synonyms: papillary tumor, papillary tumour, villoma |
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| papillon | (noun) small slender toy spaniel with erect ears and a black-spotted brown to white coat | - |
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| papism | (noun) offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: popery |
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| (noun) the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome | Synonyms: Roman Catholicism, Romanism |
| papist | (noun) an offensive term for Roman Catholics; originally, a Roman Catholic who was a strong advocate of the papacy | - |
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| physiotherapist | (noun) therapist who treats injury or dysfunction with exercises and other physical treatments of the disorder | Synonyms: physical therapist |
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| priapism | (noun) condition in which the penis is continually erect; usually painful and seldom with sexual arousal | - |
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| psychotherapist | (noun) a therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders | Synonyms: clinical psychologist |
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| radiotherapist | (noun) a medical specialist who uses radioactive substances and X-rays in the treatment of disease | Synonyms: radiologist |
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| rapid | (noun) a part of a river where the current is very fast | - |
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| rapidity | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: celerity, quickness, rapidness, speediness |
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| rapidness | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: celerity, quickness, rapidity, speediness |
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| rapier | (noun) a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges | Synonyms: tuck |
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| rapine | (noun) the act of despoiling a country in warfare | Synonyms: rape |
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| rapist | (noun) someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse | Synonyms: raper |
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| recapitulation | (noun) (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) | - |
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| (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, review |
| (noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated | - |
| (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: palingenesis |
| rudapithecus | (noun) fossil hominoids from northern central Hungary; late Miocene | Synonyms: Dryopithecus Rudapithecus hungaricus |
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| sapidity | (noun) a pleasant flavor | Synonyms: sapidness |
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| (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, savor, savour, smack, tang |
| sapidness | (noun) a pleasant flavor | Synonyms: sapidity |
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| sapience | (noun) ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight | Synonyms: wisdom |
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| scrapie | (noun) a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system | - |
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| scraping | (noun) a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility) | Synonyms: scrape |
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| (noun) a harsh noise made by scraping | Synonyms: scrape, scratch, scratching |
| (noun) (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected | - |
| shaping | (noun) the act of fabricating something in a particular shape | Synonyms: formation |
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| (noun) any process serving to define the shape of something | Synonyms: defining |
| sinapism | (noun) a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient | Synonyms: mustard plaster |
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| soapiness | (noun) the quality of being soap or being covered with soap | - |
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| taping | (noun) a recording made on magnetic tape | Synonyms: tape, tape recording |
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| tapinosis | (noun) (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits. | - |
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| tapioca | (noun) granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings | - |
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| tapir | (noun) large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout | - |
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| tapis | (noun) a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery | Synonyms: tapestry |
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| terrapin | (noun) any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water | - |
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| therapist | (noun) a person skilled in a particular type of therapy | Synonyms: healer |
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| vapidity | (noun) the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | Synonyms: jejuneness, jejunity, tameness, vapidness |
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| vapidness | (noun) the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | Synonyms: jejuneness, jejunity, tameness, vapidity |
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| vaping | (noun) consumption of a vaporized nicotine solution | - |
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| wapiti | (noun) large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, elk |
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| (noun) common deer of temperate Europe and Asia | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus, elk, red deer |
| yanquapin | (noun) water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds | Synonyms: American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, water chinquapin |
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