| abarticulation | (noun) dislocation of a joint | - |
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| acicula | (noun) a needlelike part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal; as a spine or bristle or crystal | - |
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| appendicularia | (noun) free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates | - |
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| articulateness | (noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing | Synonyms: fluency, volubility |
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| articulatio | (noun) (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Synonyms: articulation, joint |
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| articulation | (noun) the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible | - |
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| (noun) (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Synonyms: articulatio, joint |
| (noun) the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech | - |
| (noun) expressing in coherent verbal form | Synonyms: voice |
| (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: join, joint, junction, juncture |
| articulator | (noun) a movable speech organ | - |
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| (noun) someone who pronounces words | - |
| auricula | (noun) a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart | Synonyms: auricular appendage, auricular appendix |
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| (noun) yellow-flowered primrose native to Alps; commonly cultivated | Synonyms: bear's ear, Primula auricula |
| auriculare | (noun) the craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus | Synonyms: auricular point |
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| binoculars | (noun) (plural) an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes | Synonyms: field glasses, opera glasses |
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| buccula | (noun) a fold of fatty tissue under the chin | Synonyms: double chin |
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| calculability | (noun) The quality of being subject to or ascertainable by calculation. | - |
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| calculation | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: computation, computing |
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| (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: computation, figuring, reckoning |
| (noun) planning something carefully and intentionally | Synonyms: deliberation |
| calculator | (noun) a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations; can be mechanical or electronic | Synonyms: calculating machine |
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| (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: computer, estimator, figurer, reckoner |
| caruncula | (noun) an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds | Synonyms: caruncle |
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| circular | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
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| circularisation | (noun) circulating printed notices as a means of advertising | Synonyms: circularization |
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| circularity | (noun) the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure | Synonyms: disk shape |
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| circularization | (noun) circulating printed notices as a means of advertising | Synonyms: circularisation |
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| circulation | (noun) the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area | - |
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| (noun) the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines) | - |
| (noun) free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant) | - |
| (noun) movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels | - |
| (noun) number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold | - |
| (noun) (library science) the count of books that are loaned by a library over a specified period | - |
| cuticula | (noun) the outer body wall of an insect | - |
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| ejaculate | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: come, cum, seed, semen, seminal fluid |
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| ejaculation | (noun) an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion | Synonyms: interjection |
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| (noun) the discharge of semen in males | - |
| ejaculator | (noun) a speaker who utters a sudden exclamation | - |
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| (noun) a man who ejaculates semen | - |
| emasculation | (noun) neutering a male animal by removing the testicles | Synonyms: castration |
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| (noun) loss of power and masculinity | - |
| facula | (noun) a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots | Synonyms: solar facula |
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| (noun) a bright spot on a planet | - |
| fasciculation | (noun) muscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers | - |
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| fecula | (noun) excreta (especially of insects) | - |
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| flocculation | (noun) the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations | - |
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| flocculator | (noun) An apparatus used in the process of flocculation. | - |
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| funicular | (noun) a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars | Synonyms: cable railway, funicular railway |
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| furcula | (noun) a forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles of most birds | - |
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| gesticulation | (noun) a deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion | - |
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| immaculacy | (noun) The characteristic of having no stain or blemish; of being spotless, undefiled, clear, pure. | - |
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| immaculateness | (noun) the state of being spotlessly clean | Synonyms: spotlessness |
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| inoculant | (noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease | Synonyms: inoculum |
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| inoculating | (noun) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | Synonyms: vaccinating |
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| inoculation | (noun) taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease | Synonyms: vaccination |
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| inoculator | (noun) a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases | Synonyms: vaccinator |
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| inosculation | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: anastomosis |
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| jocularity | (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jest, joke |
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| (noun) fun characterized by humor | Synonyms: jocosity |
| (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocundity |
| macula | (noun) a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision | Synonyms: macula lutea, macular area, yellow spot |
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| (noun) a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases | Synonyms: macule |
| (noun) a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field | Synonyms: sunspot |
| maculation | (noun) the act of spotting or staining something | Synonyms: spotting, staining |
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| (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, patch, speckle, spot |
| matriculate | (noun) someone who has been admitted to a college or university | - |
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| matriculation | (noun) admission to a group (especially a college or university) | Synonyms: matric |
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| minicalculator | (noun) (old-fashioned) a very small handheld calculator. | - |
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| miscalculation | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: misestimation, misreckoning |
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| muscularity | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, sinew |
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| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour, vim |
| (noun) the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle | - |
| musculature | (noun) the muscular system of an organism | Synonyms: muscle system, muscular structure |
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| navicular | (noun) the largest wrist bone on the thumb side | Synonyms: os scaphoideum, scaphoid bone |
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| ocular | (noun) combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments | Synonyms: eyepiece |
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| osculation | (noun) the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: buss, kiss |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent | - |
| osculator | (noun) someone who kisses | Synonyms: kisser |
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| pandiculation | (noun) yawning and stretching (as when first waking up) | - |
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| particular | (noun) a fact about some part (as opposed to general) | Synonyms: specific |
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| (noun) (logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class | Synonyms: particular proposition |
| (noun) a small part that can be considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: detail, item |
| particularisation | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: detailing, particularization |
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| particularism | (noun) a focus on something particular | - |
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| particularity | (noun) the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance | Synonyms: specialness |
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| particularization | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: detailing, particularisation |
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| particulate | (noun) a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) | Synonyms: particulate matter |
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| peculation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation |
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| peculator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, embezzler |
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| perpendicular | (noun) an extremely steep face | - |
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| (noun) a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point | Synonyms: plumb line |
| (noun) a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting | Synonyms: English-Gothic, English-Gothic architecture, perpendicular style |
| (noun) a straight line at right angles to another line | - |
| perpendicularity | (noun) the quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon) | - |
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| (noun) the relation of opposition between things at right angles | Synonyms: orthogonal opposition, orthogonality |
| pinguecula | (noun) a slightly elevated elastic tissue deposit in the conjunctiva that may extend to the cornea but does not cover it | - |
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| recalculation | (noun) the act of calculating again (usually to eliminate errors or to include additional data) | - |
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| recirculation | (noun) circulation again | - |
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| reticulation | (noun) an arrangement resembling a net or network | - |
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| (noun) (photography) the formation of a network of cracks or wrinkles in a photographic emulsion | - |
| secular | (noun) someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | Synonyms: layman, layperson |
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| secularisation | (noun) transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession | Synonyms: secularization |
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| (noun) the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion | Synonyms: secularization |
| secularism | (noun) a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations | - |
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| secularist | (noun) an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education | - |
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| secularization | (noun) transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession | Synonyms: secularisation |
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| (noun) the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion | Synonyms: secularisation |
| spectacular | (noun) a lavishly produced performance | - |
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| speculation | (noun) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) | Synonyms: conjecture |
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| (noun) continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature | Synonyms: meditation |
| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
| (noun) an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits | Synonyms: venture |
| speculativeness | (noun) the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation | - |
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| (noun) financial risk | - |
| speculator | (noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Synonyms: plunger |
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| (noun) someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts | - |
| trabecula | (noun) rod-shaped structures of fibrous tissue that divide an organ into parts (as in the penis) or stabilize the structure of an organ (as in the spleen) | - |
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| tubercular | (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: consumptive, lunger |
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| unguiculate | (noun) a mammal having nails or claws | Synonyms: unguiculate mammal |
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| vallecula | (noun) (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part | Synonyms: groove |
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| vascularisation | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularization |
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| vascularity | (noun) the property being vascular | - |
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| vascularization | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularisation |
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| vermiculation | (noun) a decoration consisting of wormlike carvings | - |
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| (noun) the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along | Synonyms: peristalsis |
| vernacular | (noun) the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) | - |
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| (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang |
| vesiculation | (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: blistering, vesication |
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