| acerbity | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acrimony, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
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| (noun) a sharp sour taste | Synonyms: tartness |
| (noun) a sharp bitterness | - |
| albite | (noun) a widely distributed feldspar that forms rocks | Synonyms: white feldspar |
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| ambit | (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: compass, orbit, range, reach, scope |
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| ambition | (noun) a strong drive for success | Synonyms: ambitiousness |
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| (noun) a cherished desire | Synonyms: aspiration, dream |
| ambitiousness | (noun) a strong drive for success | Synonyms: ambition |
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| amobarbital | (noun) a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relieve insomnia and as an anticonvulsant | - |
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| arbiter | (noun) someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue | Synonyms: arbitrator, umpire |
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| (noun) someone with the power to settle matters at will | Synonyms: supreme authority |
| 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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| arbitrament | (noun) the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment | Synonyms: arbitration, arbitrement |
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| arbitrariness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| arbitration | (noun) the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment | Synonyms: arbitrament, arbitrement |
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| (noun) (law) the hearing and determination of a dispute by an impartial referee agreed to by both parties (often used to settle disputes between labor and management) | - |
| arbitrator | (noun) someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue | Synonyms: arbiter, umpire |
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| arbitrement | (noun) the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment | Synonyms: arbitrament, arbitration |
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| babbitt | (noun) an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; a lining for bearings that reduces friction | Synonyms: Babbitt metal |
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| babbitting | (noun) lining a surface or bearing with Babbitt metal | - |
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| backbiter | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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| barbital | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea, veronal |
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| barbitone | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea, veronal |
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| barbiturate | (noun) organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal | - |
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| bit | (noun) the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press | - |
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| (noun) piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding | - |
| (noun) the part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers | - |
| (noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, number, routine, turn |
| (noun) a small fragment | Synonyms: snatch |
| (noun) an instance of some kind | Synonyms: piece |
| (noun) a small amount of solid food; a mouthful | Synonyms: bite, morsel |
| (noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: chip, flake, fleck, scrap |
| (noun) a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states | - |
| (noun) a small piece or quantity of something | Synonyms: spot |
| (noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: minute, mo, moment, second |
| bitartrate | (noun) an acid tartrate; a hydrogen tartrate | - |
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| bitch | (noun) female of any member of the dog family | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, gripe, kick, squawk |
| (noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked | Synonyms: cunt |
| (noun) an unpleasant difficulty | - |
| bitchery | (noun) aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman | - |
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| bitchiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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| bite | (noun) the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws | Synonyms: chomp |
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| (noun) a portion removed from the whole | - |
| (noun) a strong odor or taste property | Synonyms: pungency, raciness, sharpness |
| (noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality | Synonyms: pungency |
| (noun) (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait | - |
| (noun) a light informal meal | Synonyms: collation, snack |
| (noun) a small amount of solid food; a mouthful | Synonyms: bit, morsel |
| (noun) a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person | - |
| (noun) a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin | Synonyms: insect bite, sting |
| biteplate | (noun) a removable dental appliance that is worn in the palate for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes | Synonyms: bite plate |
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| biter | (noun) someone who bites | - |
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| bitewing | (noun) a dental X-ray film that can be held in place by the teeth during radiography | - |
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| bitmap | (noun) an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels | Synonyms: electronic image |
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| bitok | (noun) a Russian dish made with patties of ground meat (mixed with onions and bread and milk) and served with a sauce of sour cream | - |
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| bitstock | (noun) a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring | Synonyms: brace |
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| bitt | (noun) a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines) | Synonyms: bollard |
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| bitter | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitterness |
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| (noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitterness |
| (noun) English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft) | - |
| bittercress | (noun) any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic | Synonyms: bitter cress |
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| bittern | (noun) relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes | - |
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| bitterness | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitter |
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| (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
| (noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitter |
| (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: gall, rancor, rancour, resentment |
| bitternut | (noun) hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts | Synonyms: bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory |
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| bitterroot | (noun) showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower | Synonyms: Lewisia rediviva |
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| bitters | (noun) alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots | - |
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| bittersweet | (noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork |
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| (noun) poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America | Synonyms: bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade |
| bitterweed | (noun) any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma | Synonyms: ambrosia, ragweed |
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| (noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bristly oxtongue, bugloss, oxtongue, Picris echioides |
| bitterwood | (noun) handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark | Synonyms: quassia, Quassia amara |
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| (noun) West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia | Synonyms: Jamaica quassia, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum |
| (noun) medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits | Synonyms: paradise tree, Simarouba glauca |
| bitthead | (noun) the upper end of a bitt | - |
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| bitumastic | (noun) a protective coating of asphalt and filter used on structural metals that are exposed to weathering | - |
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| bitumen | (noun) any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons | - |
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| cenobite | (noun) a member of a religious order living in common | Synonyms: coenobite |
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| chalybite | (noun) iron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate | Synonyms: siderite |
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| coenobite | (noun) a member of a religious order living in common | Synonyms: cenobite |
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| cohabitation | (noun) the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married) | - |
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| columbite | (noun) a black mineral that is an ore of niobium and tantalum | Synonyms: niobite |
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| cubit | (noun) an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm | - |
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| cubitiere | (noun) body armor that protects the elbow | - |
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| cubitus | (noun) hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped | Synonyms: articulatio cubiti, cubital joint, elbow, elbow joint, human elbow |
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| (noun) the arm from the elbow to the fingertips | - |
| cucurbit | (noun) any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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| debit | (noun) an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing | Synonyms: debit entry |
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| debitor | (noun) a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt | Synonyms: debtor |
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| decubitus | (noun) a reclining position (as in a bed) | - |
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| embitterment | (noun) the state of being embittered | - |
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| exabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 petabits or 10^18 bits | Synonyms: Eb, Ebit |
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| exbibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibits or 2^60 bits | Synonyms: Eibit |
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| exhibit | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: display, showing |
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| (noun) an object or statement produced before a court of law and referred to while giving evidence | - |
| exhibition | (noun) the act of exhibiting | - |
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| (noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: expo, exposition |
| exhibitioner | (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitor, shower |
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| exhibitionism | (noun) the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals | Synonyms: immodesty |
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| (noun) extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself | - |
| exhibitionist | (noun) someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention | Synonyms: show-off |
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| (noun) someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals | Synonyms: flasher |
| exhibitor | (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitioner, shower |
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| exorbitance | (noun) excessive excess | Synonyms: outrageousness |
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| frogbit | (noun) European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers | Synonyms: frog's-bit, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae |
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| frostbite | (noun) destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene | Synonyms: cryopathy |
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| gambit | (noun) a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position | - |
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| (noun) a maneuver in a game or conversation | Synonyms: ploy, stratagem |
| (noun) an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker | Synonyms: ploy |
| gibibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibits or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bits | Synonyms: Gibit |
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| gigabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Gb, Gbit |
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| habit | (noun) excessive use of drugs | Synonyms: drug abuse, substance abuse |
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| (noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition | Synonyms: use |
| (noun) a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order | - |
| (noun) attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire) | Synonyms: riding habit |
| (noun) an established custom | Synonyms: wont |
| (noun) the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal) | - |
| habitability | (noun) suitability for living in or on | Synonyms: habitableness |
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| habitableness | (noun) suitability for living in or on | Synonyms: habitability |
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| habitant | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, indweller, inhabitant |
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| habitat | (noun) the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs | Synonyms: home ground |
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| habitation | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: inhabitancy, inhabitation |
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| (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, home |
| (noun) the native habitat or home of an animal or plant | - |
| habituation | (noun) a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions | - |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependence, dependency |
| habitude | (noun) habitual mode of behavior | - |
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| habitue | (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: fixture, regular |
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| habitus | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, build, physique |
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| (noun) person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease) | - |
| hawkbit | (noun) any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon; of temperate Eurasia to Mediterranean regions | - |
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| henbit | (noun) Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers | Synonyms: Lamium amplexicaule |
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| hobbit | (noun) an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien | - |
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| imbibition | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: drinking, imbibing |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel | - |
| indubitability | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indisputability, unquestionability, unquestionableness |
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| inhabitancy | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: habitation, inhabitation |
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| inhabitant | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, habitant, indweller |
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| inhabitation | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: habitation, inhabitancy |
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| inhibition | (noun) (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires | Synonyms: suppression |
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| (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: forbiddance, prohibition |
| (noun) the quality of being inhibited | - |
| (noun) (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part | - |
| inhibitor | (noun) a substance that retards or stops an activity | - |
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| jackrabbit | (noun) large hare of western North America | - |
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| kbit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 bits | Synonyms: kb, kilobit |
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| kibibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 bits | Synonyms: kibit |
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| kibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 bits | Synonyms: kibibit |
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| kibitzer | (noun) (Yiddish) a meddler who offers unwanted advice to others | - |
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| kilobit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 bits | Synonyms: kb, kbit |
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