| addict | (noun) someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance or activity | - |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: freak, junkie, junky, nut |
| addiction | (noun) (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master | - |
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| (noun) an abnormally strong craving | - |
| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: dependance, dependence, dependency, habituation |
| benedict | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedick |
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| benedictine | (noun) a French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks | - |
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| benediction | (noun) the act of praying for divine protection | Synonyms: blessing |
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| (noun) a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection | Synonyms: blessing |
| contradiction | (noun) the speech act of contradicting someone | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a statement that is necessarily false | Synonyms: contradiction in terms |
| (noun) opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas | - |
| contradictoriness | (noun) the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist | - |
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| contradictory | (noun) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time | - |
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| dictate | (noun) a guiding principle | - |
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| (noun) an authoritative rule | - |
| dictation | (noun) speech intended for reproduction in writing | - |
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| (noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, bidding, command |
| (noun) matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage | - |
| dictator | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: potentate |
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| (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: authoritarian |
| (noun) a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine | - |
| dictatorship | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| diction | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, phraseology, phrasing, verbiage, wording |
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| (noun) the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience | Synonyms: enunciation |
| dictionary | (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: lexicon |
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| dictostylium | (noun) any slime mold of the genus Dictostylium | - |
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| dictum | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: pronouncement, say-so |
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| (noun) an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding | Synonyms: obiter dictum |
| dictyosome | (noun) a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) | Synonyms: Golgi apparatus, Golgi body, Golgi complex |
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| edict | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, fiat, order, rescript |
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| (noun) a formal or authoritative proclamation | - |
| indictability | (noun) the state of being liable to impeachment | Synonyms: impeachability |
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| indiction | (noun) a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms | - |
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| indictment | (noun) a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense | Synonyms: bill of indictment |
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| (noun) an accusation of wrongdoing | - |
| interdict | (noun) an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district | - |
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| (noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdiction |
| interdiction | (noun) authoritative prohibition | - |
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| (noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdict |
| jurisdiction | (noun) (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law | Synonyms: legal power |
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| (noun) in law; the territory within which power can be exercised | - |
| malediction | (noun) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) | Synonyms: imprecation |
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| predictability | (noun) the quality of being predictable | - |
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| prediction | (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prevision |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prognostication |
| predictor | (noun) a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival | - |
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| (noun) information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events | - |
| (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer |
| unpredictability | (noun) lacking predictability | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being unpredictably irresolute | Synonyms: volatility |
| (noun) the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses | Synonyms: capriciousness |
| valediction | (noun) the act of saying farewell | - |
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| (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valedictory, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
| valedictorian | (noun) the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement | Synonyms: valedictory speaker |
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| valedictory | (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
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| verdict | (noun) (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment | Synonyms: finding of fact |
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| vindictiveness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vengefulness |
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