| abducens | (noun) a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye | Synonyms: abducens nerve, abducent, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve |
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| abducent | (noun) a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye | Synonyms: abducens, abducens nerve, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve |
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| abduction | (noun) the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family relationship and against the wife | - |
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| (noun) (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body | - |
| abductor | (noun) a muscle that draws a body part away from the median line | Synonyms: abductor muscle |
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| (noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher |
| acidulousness | (noun) the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: acidity |
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| addendum | (noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: postscript, supplement |
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| adducer | (noun) a discussant who offers an example or a reason or a proof | - |
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| adducing | (noun) citing as evidence or proof | - |
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| adduct | (noun) a compound formed by an addition reaction | - |
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| adduction | (noun) (physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body | - |
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| adductor | (noun) a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line | Synonyms: adductor muscle |
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| adulation | (noun) servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise | - |
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| adulator | (noun) a person who uses flattery | Synonyms: flatterer |
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| adult | (noun) any mature animal | - |
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| (noun) a fully developed person from maturity onward | Synonyms: grownup |
| adulterant | (noun) any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | Synonyms: adulterator |
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| adulteration | (noun) the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another) | - |
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| (noun) being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating | Synonyms: debasement |
| adulterator | (noun) a changer who lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | - |
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| (noun) any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | Synonyms: adulterant |
| adulterer | (noun) someone who commits adultery or fornication | Synonyms: fornicator |
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| adulteress | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
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| adulterousness | (noun) The quality of being adulterous, involving sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. | - |
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| adultery | (noun) extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations | Synonyms: criminal conversation, fornication |
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| adulthood | (noun) the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity | - |
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| (noun) the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed | Synonyms: maturity |
| adulting | (noun) acting like an adult | - |
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| adumbration | (noun) a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation | - |
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| (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefiguration |
| agendum | (noun) a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting) | Synonyms: agenda, order of business |
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| alhamdulilah | (noun) An expression meaning 'praise God' in Arabic | - |
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| alundum | (noun) a substance made of fused alumina | - |
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| aminoaciduria | (noun) abnormal presence of amino acids in the urine; usually a symptom of metabolic defects | - |
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| aqueduct | (noun) a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley | - |
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| archduchess | (noun) a wife or widow of an archduke or a princess of the former ruling house of Austria | - |
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| archduchy | (noun) the domain controlled by an archduke or archduchess | - |
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| archduke | (noun) a sovereign prince of the former ruling house of Austria | - |
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| arduousness | (noun) extreme effortfulness | Synonyms: strenuousness |
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| assiduity | (noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduousness, concentration |
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| assiduousness | (noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduity, concentration |
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| avoirdupois | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: blubber, fat, fatness |
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| (noun) a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains) | Synonyms: avoirdupois weight |
| baranduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baronduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| baronduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| barunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| bonduc | (noun) tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries | Synonyms: bonduc tree, Caesalpinia bonduc, Caesalpinia bonducella |
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| (noun) handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: chicot, Gymnocladus dioica, Kentucky coffee tree |
| buildup | (noun) the act of building up an accumulation | - |
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| (noun) highly favorable publicity and praise | - |
| (noun) the result of the process of accumulation | - |
| burunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, barunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| byproduct | (noun) a product made during the manufacture of something else | Synonyms: by-product, spin-off |
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| (noun) a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence | Synonyms: by-product |
| caduceus | (noun) an insignia used by the medical profession; modeled after the staff of Hermes | - |
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| calendula | (noun) any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medicinal and culinary purposes | - |
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| carborundum | (noun) an abrasive composed of silicon carbide crystals | - |
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| ceratodus | (noun) extinct lungfish | - |
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| circumduction | (noun) a circular movement of a limb or eye | - |
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| coeducation | (noun) education of men and women in the same institutions | - |
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| conduct | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, doings |
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| (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, demeanor, demeanour, deportment |
| conductance | (noun) a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance | - |
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| conducting | (noun) the way of administering a business | - |
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| (noun) the direction of an orchestra or choir | - |
| conduction | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conductivity |
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| conductivity | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conduction |
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| conductor | (noun) a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc. | - |
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| (noun) the person who leads a musical group | Synonyms: director, music director |
| (noun) the person who collects fares on a public conveyance | - |
| (noun) a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | - |
| conductress | (noun) a woman conductor | - |
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| conduit | (noun) a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass | - |
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| corduroy | (noun) a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton | Synonyms: cord |
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| (noun) a road made of logs laid crosswise | - |
| corduroys | (noun) cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth | Synonyms: cords |
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| corrigendum | (noun) a printer's error; to be corrected | - |
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| corundum | (noun) very hard mineral used as an abrasive | Synonyms: corundom |
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| credendum | (noun) (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided | Synonyms: article of faith |
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| credulity | (noun) tendency to believe readily | - |
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| credulousness | (noun) tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived | Synonyms: gullibility |
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| decidua | (noun) the epithelial tissue of the endometrium | - |
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| deductible | (noun) a clause in an insurance policy that relieves the insurer of responsibility to pay the initial loss up to a stated amount | - |
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| (noun) (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax) | - |
| deduction | (noun) the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) | Synonyms: subtraction |
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| (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: discount, price reduction |
| (noun) reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | Synonyms: deductive reasoning, synthesis |
| (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: entailment, implication |
| (noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: discount |
| (noun) a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket | Synonyms: tax deduction, tax write-off |
| demodulation | (noun) (electronics) the reception of a signal by extracting it from the carrier wave | - |
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| demodulator | (noun) rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave | Synonyms: detector |
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| duad | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
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| dualism | (noun) the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil | - |
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| dualist | (noun) an adherent of dualism | - |
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| duality | (noun) (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory | Synonyms: wave-particle duality |
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| (noun) (geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry | - |
| (noun) being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses | Synonyms: dichotomy |
| dub | (noun) the new sounds added by dubbing | - |
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| dubbin | (noun) tallow mixed with oil; used to make leather soft and waterproof | - |
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| dubbing | (noun) a new soundtrack that is added to a film | - |
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| dubiety | (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty |
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| dubiousness | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, question |
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| (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, incertitude, uncertainty |
| dubnium | (noun) a transuranic element with atomic number 105 | Synonyms: atomic number 105, Db, element 105, hahnium |
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| dubstep | (noun) A genre of electronic music descended from 2-step garage, characterised by its dark mood, sparse, half-step and two-step rhythms, an average bpm of 140 and an emphasis on sub-bass. | - |
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| ducat | (noun) formerly a gold coin of various European countries | - |
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| duce | (noun) leader | - |
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| duchess | (noun) the wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own right | - |
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| duchy | (noun) the domain controlled by a duke or duchess | Synonyms: dukedom |
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| duck | (noun) small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs | - |
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| (noun) a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents | - |
| (noun) flesh of a duck (domestic or wild) | - |
| (noun) (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman | Synonyms: duck's egg |
| duckbill | (noun) small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae | Synonyms: duck-billed platypus, duckbilled platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus |
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| (noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: paddlefish, Polyodon spathula |
| duckboard | (noun) a boardwalk laid across muddy ground | - |
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| ducking | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, immersion, submersion |
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| (noun) hunting ducks | Synonyms: duck hunting |
| duckling | (noun) young duck | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a young domestic duck | - |
| duckpin | (noun) a bowling pin that is short and squat by comparison with a tenpin | - |
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| duckpins | (noun) a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider | - |
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| duckweed | (noun) any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds | - |
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| ducky | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| duct | (noun) an enclosed conduit for a fluid | - |
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| (noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: canal, channel, epithelial duct |
| (noun) a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls | - |
| ductileness | (noun) the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets | Synonyms: ductility |
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| ductility | (noun) the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets | Synonyms: ductileness |
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| ductule | (noun) a very small duct | Synonyms: ductulus |
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| ductulus | (noun) a very small duct | Synonyms: ductule |
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| dud | (noun) an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | Synonyms: bomb, turkey |
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| (noun) an explosion that fails to occur | Synonyms: misfire |
| (noun) someone who is unsuccessful | Synonyms: flop, washout |
| dude | (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
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| (noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: buster, fellow |