| accommodation | (noun) the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need | - |
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| (noun) (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye | - |
| (noun) living quarters provided for public convenience | - |
| (noun) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality | - |
| (noun) a settlement of differences | - |
| (noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment, fitting |
| accommodator | (noun) someone who performs a service or does a favor | Synonyms: obliger |
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| backwardation | (noun) the market condition wherein the price of a forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity. | - |
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| candidate | (noun) someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) | Synonyms: prospect |
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| (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: campaigner, nominee |
| candidature | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidacy, electioneering, political campaign |
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| caudate | (noun) amphibians that resemble lizards | Synonyms: urodele |
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| (noun) a tail-shaped basal ganglion located in a lateral ventricle of the brain | Synonyms: caudate nucleus |
| cephalochordate | (noun) fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column | - |
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| chordate | (noun) any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column | - |
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| commendation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: citation |
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| (noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: approval |
| concordat | (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: compact, covenant |
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| consolidation | (noun) the act of combining into an integral whole | Synonyms: integration |
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| (noun) combining into a solid mass | - |
| (noun) something that has consolidated into a compact mass | - |
| cuspidation | (noun) a decoration using cusps | - |
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| data | (noun) a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn | Synonyms: information |
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| database | (noun) an organized body of related information | - |
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| date | (noun) sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed | - |
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| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: appointment, engagement |
| (noun) a participant in a date | Synonyms: escort |
| (noun) the specified day of the month | Synonyms: day of the month |
| (noun) the present | - |
| (noun) the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred | - |
| (noun) a particular day specified as the time something happens | - |
| dateline | (noun) a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian | Synonyms: date line, International Date Line |
| dating | (noun) use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens | Synonyms: geological dating |
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| dative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | Synonyms: dative case |
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| datum | (noun) an item of factual information derived from measurement or research | Synonyms: data point |
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| degradation | (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state) | Synonyms: debasement |
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| (noun) a low or downcast state | Synonyms: abasement, abjection |
| denudation | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, husking, stripping, uncovering |
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| depredation | (noun) an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding | Synonyms: predation |
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| (noun) (usually plural) a destructive action | Synonyms: ravage |
| 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 |
| elucidation | (noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: clarification, illumination |
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| (noun) an act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on | - |
| emendation | (noun) a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing | - |
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| exudate | (noun) a substance that oozes out from plant pores | Synonyms: exudation |
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| exudation | (noun) the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes | Synonyms: transudation |
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| (noun) a substance that oozes out from plant pores | Synonyms: exudate |
| fecundation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fertilisation, fertilization, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fertilisation, fertilization |
| feudatory | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: liege, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
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| fluoridation | (noun) the addition of a fluoride to the water supply (to prevent dental decay) | Synonyms: fluoridisation, fluoridization |
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| foundation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body | Synonyms: foundation garment |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, fundament, groundwork |
| (noun) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge | Synonyms: grounding |
| (noun) an institution supported by an endowment | - |
| (noun) the basis on which something is grounded | - |
| gradation | (noun) the act of arranging in grades | Synonyms: graduation |
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| (noun) a degree of ablaut | Synonyms: grade |
| (noun) relative position in a graded series | Synonyms: step |
| gravidation | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidity, gravidness |
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| hydathode | (noun) a pore that exudes water on the surface or margin of a leaf of higher plants | Synonyms: water pore, water stoma |
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| hydatid | (noun) cyst filled with liquid; forms as a result of infestation by tapeworm larvae (as in echinococcosis) | - |
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| hydatidosis | (noun) infestation with larval echinococci (tapeworms) | Synonyms: echinococcosis, hydatid disease |
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| infrigidation | (noun) the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes | Synonyms: refrigeration |
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| intimidation | (noun) the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something | Synonyms: bullying |
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| (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, deterrence |
| (noun) the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid | - |
| (noun) the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc. | - |
| inundation | (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, flood |
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| (noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, flood, torrent |
| invalidation | (noun) (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) | Synonyms: annulment |
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| (noun) when a person's thoughts and feelings are rejected, ignored, or judged. | - |
| invalidator | (noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: nullifier, voider |
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| 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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| laudator | (noun) someone who communicates high praise | Synonyms: extoller, lauder |
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| liquidation | (noun) termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities | Synonyms: settlement |
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| (noun) the act of exterminating | Synonyms: extermination |
| (noun) the murder of a competitor | Synonyms: elimination |
| liquidator | (noun) (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties | Synonyms: receiver |
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| (noun) a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | Synonyms: manslayer, murderer |
| mandatary | (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatory |
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| mandate | (noun) the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory | - |
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| (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
| (noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandatory |
| mandator | (noun) an authority who issues a mandate | - |
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| mandatory | (noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandate |
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| (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatary |
| metadata | (noun) data about data | - |
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| methylphenidate | (noun) central nervous system stimulant (trade name Ritalin) used in the treatment of narcolepsy in adults and attention deficit disorder in children | Synonyms: Ritalin |
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| misdating | (noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | Synonyms: anachronism, mistiming |
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| nidation | (noun) (embryology) the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammals | Synonyms: implantation |
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| noncandidate | (noun) someone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office | - |
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| oxidation | (noun) the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction | Synonyms: oxidisation, oxidization |
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| predation | (noun) the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey | - |
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| (noun) an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding | Synonyms: depredation |
| predator | (noun) any animal that lives by preying on other animals | Synonyms: predatory animal |
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| (noun) someone who attacks in search of booty | Synonyms: marauder, piranha, vulture |
| recommendation | (noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission | Synonyms: passport |
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| (noun) something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable | - |
| (noun) something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable | Synonyms: good word, testimonial |
| retardation | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: lag, slowdown |
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| (noun) a decrease in rate of change | Synonyms: deceleration, slowing |
| (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, slowness, subnormality |
| (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardant, retardent |
| (noun) the extent to which something is delayed or held back | - |
| samizdat | (noun) a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature | Synonyms: underground press |
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| sedateness | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: solemness, solemnity, staidness |
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| sedation | (noun) the administration of a sedative agent or drug | Synonyms: drugging |
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| (noun) a state of reduced excitement or anxiety that is induced by the administrative of a sedative agent | - |
| sedative | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, downer, sedative drug |
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| sudation | (noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: diaphoresis, hidrosis, perspiration, sweating |
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| sudatorium | (noun) a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths | Synonyms: sudatory |
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| sudatory | (noun) a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths | Synonyms: sudatorium |
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| (noun) a medicine that causes or increases sweating | Synonyms: sudorific |
| sundate | (noun) A date on a Sunday | - |
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| superfecundation | (noun) fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males) | - |
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| transudate | (noun) a substance that transudes | Synonyms: transudation |
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| transudation | (noun) the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes | Synonyms: exudation |
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| (noun) a substance that transudes | Synonyms: transudate |
| trepidation | (noun) a feeling of alarm or dread | - |
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| update | (noun) the act of bringing someone or something up to date | - |
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| (noun) information or data that updates | - |
| updating | (noun) the act of changing something to bring it up to date (usually by adding something) | - |
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| urochordate | (noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva | Synonyms: tunicate, urochord |
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| validation | (noun) the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something | Synonyms: proof, substantiation |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof | Synonyms: establishment |
| vanadate | (noun) a salt or ester of vanadic acid; an anion containing pentavalent vanadium | - |
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