| anticipant | (noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipator |
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| anticipation | (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: prediction, prevision |
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| (noun) something expected (as on the basis of a norm) | Synonyms: expectancy |
| (noun) an expectation | Synonyms: expectancy |
| (noun) anticipating with confidence of fulfillment | Synonyms: expectation |
| anticipator | (noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipant |
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| cipher | (noun) a secret method of writing | Synonyms: cryptograph, cypher, secret code |
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| (noun) a message written in a secret code | Synonyms: cypher |
| (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cypher, nobody, nonentity |
| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
| (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cypher, nought, zero |
| ciprofloxacin | (noun) an oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract or urinary tract or bones or joints | Synonyms: Cipro |
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| decipherer | (noun) a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text | - |
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| (noun) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text | Synonyms: decoder |
| decipherment | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decoding, decryption |
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| disciple | (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: adherent |
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| discipleship | (noun) the position of disciple | - |
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| disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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| discipline | (noun) training to improve strength or self-control | - |
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| (noun) the act of disciplining | Synonyms: correction |
| (noun) the trait of being well behaved | - |
| (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: bailiwick, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
| (noun) a system of rules of conduct or method of practice | - |
| emancipation | (noun) freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child | - |
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| emancipationist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: abolitionist |
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| emancipator | (noun) someone who frees others from bondage | Synonyms: manumitter |
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| incipience | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipiency |
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| incipiency | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipience |
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| indiscipline | (noun) the trait of lacking discipline | Synonyms: undiscipline |
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| municipality | (noun) people living in a town or city having local self-government | - |
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| (noun) an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government | - |
| nonparticipant | (noun) a person who does not participate | - |
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| nonparticipation | (noun) withdrawing from the activities of a group | Synonyms: non-engagement, non-involvement |
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| occiput | (noun) back part of the head or skull | - |
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| participant | (noun) someone who takes part in an activity | Synonyms: player |
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| (noun) a person who participates in or is skilled at some game | Synonyms: player |
| participation | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: engagement, involution, involvement |
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| (noun) the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) | Synonyms: involvement |
| participial | (noun) a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses | Synonyms: participle |
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| participle | (noun) a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses | Synonyms: participial |
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| percipient | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, perceiver |
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| precipice | (noun) a very steep cliff | - |
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| precipitance | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitancy | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitant | (noun) an agent that causes a precipitate to form | - |
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| precipitate | (noun) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering | - |
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| precipitateness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitation | (noun) an unexpected acceleration or hastening | - |
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| (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry |
| (noun) the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height | - |
| (noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: downfall |
| (noun) the process of forming a chemical precipitate | - |
| (noun) the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time | - |
| precipitator | (noun) removes dust particles from gases by electrostatic precipitation | Synonyms: Cottrell precipitator, electrostatic precipitator |
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| precipitin | (noun) an antibody that causes precipitation when it unites with its antigen | - |
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| precipitousness | (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: abruptness, steepness |
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| (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, suddenness |
| principal | (noun) the educator who has executive authority for a school | Synonyms: head, head teacher, school principal |
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| (noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: lead, star |
| (noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: dealer |
| (noun) (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement | - |
| (noun) the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated | - |
| (noun) capital as contrasted with the income derived from it | Synonyms: corpus, principal sum |
| principality | (noun) territory ruled by a prince | Synonyms: princedom |
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| principalship | (noun) the post of principal | - |
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| principle | (noun) a basic truth or law or assumption | - |
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| (noun) a rule or standard especially of good behavior | - |
| (noun) (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | Synonyms: rationale |
| (noun) a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) rule of personal conduct | Synonyms: precept |
| recipe | (noun) directions for making something | Synonyms: formula |
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| recipient | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: recipient role |
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| (noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: receiver |
| reciprocal | (noun) hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype | Synonyms: reciprocal cross |
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| (noun) (mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7 | Synonyms: multiplicative inverse |
| (noun) something (a term or expression or concept) that has an inverse relation to something else | - |
| reciprocality | (noun) a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence | Synonyms: reciprocity |
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| reciprocation | (noun) the act of making or doing something in return | - |
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| (noun) alternating back-and-forth movement | - |
| (noun) mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) | Synonyms: give-and-take, interchange |
| reciprocity | (noun) mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges | - |
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| (noun) a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence | Synonyms: reciprocality |
| sinciput | (noun) the front part of the head or skull (including the forehead) | - |
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| undiscipline | (noun) the trait of lacking discipline | Synonyms: indiscipline |
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| velocipede | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: tricycle, trike |
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| (noun) any of several early bicycles with pedals on the front wheel | - |