| accident | (noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: chance event, fortuity, stroke |
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| (noun) an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury | - |
| accidental | (noun) a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature | - |
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| antecedent | (noun) the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun | - |
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| (noun) a preceding occurrence or cause or event | - |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, root |
| (noun) anything that precedes something similar in time | Synonyms: forerunner |
| ascendent | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, root |
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| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendant |
| confidentiality | (noun) discretion in keeping secret information | - |
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| (noun) the state of being secret | - |
| corespondent | (noun) the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding | Synonyms: co-respondent |
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| correspondent | (noun) someone who communicates by means of letters | Synonyms: letter writer |
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| (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newswriter |
| credential | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credentials |
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| credentials | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credential |
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| decadent | (noun) a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically) | - |
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| decedent | (noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, departed |
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| dent | (noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: ding, gouge, nick |
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| (noun) an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening) | - |
| (noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: incision, prick, scratch, slit |
| dental | (noun) a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge | Synonyms: alveolar, alveolar consonant, dental consonant |
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| denticle | (noun) small pointed ridge on the exoskeleton of an arthropod | - |
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| dentifrice | (noun) a substance for cleaning the teeth; applied with a toothbrush | - |
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| dentin | (noun) bone (calcified tissue) surrounding the pulp cavity of a tooth | Synonyms: dentine |
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| (noun) a calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth | Synonyms: dentine |
| dentine | (noun) bone (calcified tissue) surrounding the pulp cavity of a tooth | Synonyms: dentin |
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| (noun) a calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth | Synonyms: dentin |
| dentist | (noun) a person qualified to practice dentistry | Synonyms: dental practitioner, tooth doctor |
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| dentistry | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth | Synonyms: dental medicine, odontology |
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| dentition | (noun) the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal | Synonyms: teeth |
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| (noun) the eruption through the gums of baby teeth | Synonyms: odontiasis, teething |
| denture | (noun) a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth | Synonyms: dental plate, plate |
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| denturist | (noun) someone who makes dental appliances (bridges and dentures) | Synonyms: dental technician |
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| dependent | (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependant |
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| descendent | (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
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| dissident | (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, objector, protester |
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| edentate | (noun) primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America | - |
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| identicalness | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identity, indistinguishability |
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| identification | (noun) the act of designating or identifying something | Synonyms: designation |
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| (noun) the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons) | - |
| (noun) the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering | Synonyms: recognition |
| (noun) evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing | - |
| (noun) the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established | - |
| identifier | (noun) a symbol that establishes the identity of the one bearing it | - |
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| identity | (noun) the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity | Synonyms: individuality, personal identity |
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| (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identicalness, indistinguishability |
| (noun) the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known | - |
| (noun) an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates | Synonyms: identity element, identity operator |
| incident | (noun) a single distinct event | - |
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| (noun) a public disturbance | - |
| incidental | (noun) an item that is incidental | - |
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| (noun) (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified | Synonyms: incidental expense, minor expense |
| indent | (noun) an order for goods to be exported or imported | - |
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| (noun) the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line | Synonyms: indentation, indention, indenture |
| indentation | (noun) the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions | - |
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| (noun) the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line | Synonyms: indent, indention, indenture |
| (noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: pitting, roughness |
| (noun) a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline) | Synonyms: indenture |
| indention | (noun) the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line | Synonyms: indent, indentation, indenture |
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| indenture | (noun) a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term | - |
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| (noun) formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt | - |
| (noun) the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line | Synonyms: indent, indentation, indention |
| (noun) a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline) | Synonyms: indentation |
| independent | (noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelance, freelancer, self-employed person |
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| (noun) a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) | Synonyms: fencesitter, mugwump |
| irredenta | (noun) a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another | Synonyms: irridenta |
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| irredentism | (noun) the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related | Synonyms: irridentism |
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| irredentist | (noun) an advocate of irredentism | Synonyms: irridentist |
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| irridenta | (noun) a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another | Synonyms: irredenta |
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| irridentism | (noun) the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related | Synonyms: irredentism |
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| irridentist | (noun) an advocate of irredentism | Synonyms: irredentist |
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| labiodental | (noun) a consonant whose articulation involves the lips and teeth | Synonyms: labiodental consonant |
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| nonidentity | (noun) Difference, distinction; failure to be identical. | - |
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| nonresident | (noun) someone who does not live in a particular place | - |
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| occident | (noun) the hemisphere that includes North America and South America | Synonyms: western hemisphere |
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| occidentalism | (noun) the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Western civilizations | - |
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| pendent | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: chandelier, pendant |
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| (noun) an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) | Synonyms: pendant |
| precedent | (noun) an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time | Synonyms: case in point |
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| (noun) (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions | Synonyms: case law, common law |
| (noun) a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time) | - |
| (noun) a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws | Synonyms: case law, common law |
| president | (noun) the chief executive of a republic | - |
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| (noun) an executive officer of a firm or corporation | - |
| (noun) the head administrative officer of a college or university | Synonyms: prexy |
| (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, chairperson |
| presidentship | (noun) the office and function of president | Synonyms: presidency |
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| resident | (noun) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there | Synonyms: occupant, occupier |
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| (noun) a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital | Synonyms: house physician, resident physician |
| respondent | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, responder |
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| (noun) the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent | - |
| retardent | (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardant, retardation |
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| rodent | (noun) relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: gnawer |
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| student | (noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | Synonyms: educatee, pupil |
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| (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, learner, scholar |
| studentship | (noun) the position of student | - |
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| superintendent | (noun) a person who directs and manages an organization | Synonyms: overseer |
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| (noun) a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector | Synonyms: super |
| tendentiousness | (noun) an intentional and controversial bias | - |
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| transcendentalism | (noun) any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material | Synonyms: transcendental philosophy |
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| transcendentalist | (noun) advocate of transcendentalism | - |
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| trident | (noun) a spear with three prongs | - |
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