| argal | (noun) wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia | Synonyms: argali, Ovis ammon |
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| argali | (noun) wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia | Synonyms: argal, Ovis ammon |
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| argasid | (noun) tick lacking a dorsal shield and having mouth parts on the under side of the head | Synonyms: soft tick |
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| argemone | (noun) any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods; chiefly of tropical America | Synonyms: devil's fig, prickly poppy, white thistle |
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| argent | (noun) a metal tincture used in heraldry to give a silvery appearance | - |
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| argentine | (noun) any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes | - |
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| argentinosaur | (noun) huge herbivorous dinosaur of Cretaceous found in Argentina | - |
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| argentite | (noun) a valuable silver ore consisting of silver sulfide (Ag2S) | - |
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| argil | (noun) a white clay (especially a white clay used by potters) | - |
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| argillite | (noun) a sedimentary rock differing from shale in being bound by silica and from slate in having no slate cleavages | - |
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| arginine | (noun) a bitter tasting amino acid found in proteins and necessary for nutrition; its absence from the diet leads to a reduced production of spermatozoa | - |
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| argon | (noun) a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: Ar, atomic number 18 |
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| argonaut | (noun) someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure | - |
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| argonon | (noun) any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table | Synonyms: inert gas, noble gas |
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| argosy | (noun) one or more large merchant ships | - |
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| argot | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| arguer | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: debater |
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| arguing | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| argument | (noun) a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable | - |
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| (noun) a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning | Synonyms: argumentation, line, line of reasoning, logical argument |
| (noun) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal | Synonyms: argumentation, debate |
| (noun) a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie | Synonyms: literary argument |
| (noun) a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true | Synonyms: statement |
| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
| (noun) (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program | Synonyms: parameter |
| argumentation | (noun) a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning | Synonyms: argument, line, line of reasoning, logical argument |
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| (noun) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal | Synonyms: argument, debate |
| argus | (noun) large brilliantly patterned East Indian pheasant | Synonyms: argus pheasant |
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| argyle | (noun) a sock knitted or woven with an argyle design | Synonyms: argyll |
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| (noun) a design consisting of a pattern of varicolored diamonds on a solid background (originally for knitted articles); patterned after the tartan of a clan in western Scotland | Synonyms: argyll |
| (noun) a covered gravy holder of silver or other metal containing a detachable central vessel for hot water to keep the gravy warm | Synonyms: argyll |
| argyll | (noun) a sock knitted or woven with an argyle design | Synonyms: argyle |
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| (noun) a design consisting of a pattern of varicolored diamonds on a solid background (originally for knitted articles); patterned after the tartan of a clan in western Scotland | Synonyms: argyle |
| (noun) a covered gravy holder of silver or other metal containing a detachable central vessel for hot water to keep the gravy warm | Synonyms: argyle |
| argyrodite | (noun) a rare steel-grey mineral consisting of silver and germanium and sulfur | - |
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| bargain | (noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: deal |
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| (noun) an advantageous purchase | Synonyms: buy, steal |
| bargainer | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: dealer, monger, trader |
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| (noun) negotiator of the terms of a transaction | - |
| bargaining | (noun) the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement | - |
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| barge | (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: flatboat, hoy, lighter |
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| bargee | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargeman, lighterman |
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| bargello | (noun) needlepoint embroidery stitch that produces zigzag lines | Synonyms: flame stitch |
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| bargeman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, lighterman |
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| cargo | (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
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| charge | (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, guardianship, tutelage |
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| (noun) an impetuous rush toward someone or something | - |
| (noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group | Synonyms: commission, mission |
| (noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: burster, bursting charge, explosive charge |
| (noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, bearing, heraldic bearing |
| (noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: complaint |
| (noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: commission, direction |
| (noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: billing |
| (noun) an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence | Synonyms: accusation |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, flush, kick, rush, thrill |
| (noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | Synonyms: cathexis |
| (noun) a person committed to your care | - |
| (noun) the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons | Synonyms: electric charge |
| (noun) financial liabilities (such as a tax) | - |
| (noun) the price charged for some article or service | - |
| chargeman | (noun) a workman employed to blast with explosives | Synonyms: blaster |
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| charger | (noun) formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle | Synonyms: courser |
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| (noun) a device that can hold a rechargeable battery by means of an electrical cable | Synonyms: battery charger |
| counterargument | (noun) an argument offered in opposition to another argument | - |
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| countercharge | (noun) a retaliatory charge | - |
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| (noun) a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser | - |
| discharge | (noun) the act of discharging a gun | Synonyms: firing, firing off |
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| (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
| (noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: release, waiver |
| (noun) the act of venting | Synonyms: venting |
| (noun) the sudden giving off of energy | - |
| (noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: outpouring, run |
| (noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, electric arc, electric discharge, spark |
| (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: emission, expelling |
| (noun) a substance that is emitted or released | Synonyms: emission |
| embargo | (noun) a government order imposing a trade barrier | Synonyms: trade embargo, trade stoppage |
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| enlargement | (noun) the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | Synonyms: expansion |
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| (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, magnification |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: elaboration, expansion |
| (noun) the state of being enlarged | - |
| enlarger | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of an optical projector used to enlarge a photograph | - |
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| escargot | (noun) edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic | Synonyms: snail |
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| garganey | (noun) small Eurasian teal | Synonyms: Anas querquedula |
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| garget | (noun) tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous | Synonyms: Phytolacca americana, pigeon berry, poke, scoke |
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| gargle | (noun) the sound produced while gargling | - |
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| (noun) a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth | Synonyms: mouthwash |
| gargoyle | (noun) an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
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| (noun) a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
| gargoylism | (noun) hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation | Synonyms: dysostosis multiplex, Hurler's disease, Hurler's syndrome, lipochondrodystrophy |
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| hydrargyrum | (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, mercury, quicksilver |
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| jargon | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| (noun) specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject | - |
| (noun) a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon | Synonyms: jargoon |
| jargoon | (noun) a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon | Synonyms: jargon |
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| large | (noun) a garment size for a large person | - |
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| largemouth | (noun) a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye | Synonyms: largemouth bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed bass, largemouthed black bass, Micropterus salmoides |
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| largeness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: bigness |
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| (noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: extensiveness |
| (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: pretension, pretentiousness |
| (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, comprehensiveness |
| largess | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largesse, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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| (noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largesse |
| largesse | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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| (noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largess |
| larghetto | (noun) (music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio | - |
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| largo | (noun) (music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner | - |
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| lethargy | (noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: inanition, lassitude, slackness |
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| (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, languor, phlegm, sluggishness |
| (noun) a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) | Synonyms: lassitude, sluggishness |
| margarin | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarine, marge, oleo, oleomargarine |
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| (noun) a glyceryl ester of margaric acid | Synonyms: glycerol trimargarate |
| margarine | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarin, marge, oleo, oleomargarine |
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| margarita | (noun) a cocktail made of tequila and triple sec with lime and lemon juice | - |
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| margate | (noun) a grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil | Synonyms: Haemulon album |
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| margay | (noun) small spotted wildcat found from Texas to Brazil | Synonyms: Felis wiedi, margay cat |
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| marge | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarin, margarine, oleo, oleomargarine |
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| margin | (noun) an amount beyond the minimum necessary | - |
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| (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: allowance, leeway, tolerance |
| (noun) the blank space that surrounds the text on a page | - |
| (noun) the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities | Synonyms: security deposit |
| (noun) (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold | Synonyms: gross profit, gross profit margin |
| (noun) the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary | Synonyms: border, perimeter |
| marginalia | (noun) notes written in the margin | - |
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| marginalisation | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalization |
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| marginality | (noun) the property of being marginal or on the fringes | - |
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| marginalization | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalisation |
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| marginocephalian | (noun) includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs | Synonyms: Marginocephalia, suborder Marginocephalia |
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| margosa | (noun) large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia | Synonyms: arishth, Azadirachta indica, Melia Azadirachta, neem, neem tree, nim tree |
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| margrave | (noun) a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess) | - |
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| (noun) the military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany | - |
| marguerite | (noun) tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, Leucanthemum vulgare, moon daisy, ox-eyed daisy, oxeye daisy, white daisy |
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| (noun) perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Argyranthemum frutescens, Chrysanthemum frutescens, marguerite daisy, Paris daisy |
| narghile | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| nargileh | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| oleomargarine | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarin, margarine, marge, oleo |
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| overcharge | (noun) a price that is too high | - |
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| parget | (noun) plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys | Synonyms: pargeting, pargetting |
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| pargeting | (noun) ornamental plastering | Synonyms: pargetting |
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| (noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargetry, pargetting |
| (noun) plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys | Synonyms: parget, pargetting |
| pargetry | (noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargeting, pargetting |
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| pargetting | (noun) ornamental plastering | Synonyms: pargeting |
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| (noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargeting, pargetry |
| (noun) plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys | Synonyms: parget, pargeting |
| rearguard | (noun) a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body | - |
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| sargasso | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: gulfweed, sargassum, Sargassum bacciferum |
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| sargassum | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: gulfweed, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum |
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| sparge | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
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| stargazer | (noun) heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head | - |
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| (noun) a physicist who studies astronomy | Synonyms: astronomer, uranologist |
| (noun) someone indifferent to the busy world | Synonyms: lotus-eater |
| stargazing | (noun) observation of the stars | - |
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| supercargo | (noun) an officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase | - |
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| supercharger | (noun) compressor that forces increased oxygen into the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine | - |
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| surcharge | (noun) an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill) | - |
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| target | (noun) sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at | Synonyms: butt |
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| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, objective |
| (noun) a reference point to shoot at | Synonyms: mark |
| (noun) the location of the target that is to be hit | Synonyms: target area |
| (noun) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence | Synonyms: fair game, prey, quarry |
| teargas | (noun) a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds | Synonyms: lachrymator, lacrimator, tear gas |
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| undercharge | (noun) an insufficient charge | - |
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| (noun) a price that is too low | - |