| abjection | (noun) a low or downcast state | Synonyms: abasement, degradation |
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| acatalectic | (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables | - |
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| adenoidectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the adenoids; commonly performed along with tonsillectomy | - |
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| adjective | (noun) a word that expresses an attribute of something | - |
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| (noun) the word class that qualifies nouns | - |
| adrenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: suprarenalectomy |
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| advection | (noun) (meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties | - |
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| affect | (noun) the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion | - |
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| affectation | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectedness, mannerism, pose |
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| affectedness | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, mannerism, pose |
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| (noun) the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | - |
| affection | (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
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| affectionateness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: fondness, lovingness, warmth |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
| aftereffect | (noun) any result that follows its cause after an interval | - |
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| (noun) a delayed effect of a drug or therapy | - |
| analecta | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analects |
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| analects | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analecta |
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| angiotelectasia | (noun) dilation and enlargement of arterioles | - |
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| anorectic | (noun) a person suffering from anorexia nervosa | Synonyms: anorexic |
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| antielectron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: positron |
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| appendectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendicectomy |
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| appendicectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendectomy |
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| architect | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: designer |
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| architectonics | (noun) the science of architecture | Synonyms: tectonics |
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| architecture | (noun) the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect | - |
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| (noun) an architectural product or work | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software | Synonyms: computer architecture |
| (noun) the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings | - |
| arteriectasia | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasis |
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| arteriectasis | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasia |
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| aspect | (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: expression, face, facial expression, look |
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| (noun) a characteristic to be considered | - |
| (noun) a distinct feature or element in a problem | Synonyms: facet |
| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: panorama, prospect, scene, view, vista |
| (noun) the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb | - |
| atelectasis | (noun) collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth | - |
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| autocorrect | (noun) a system for automatically correcting text | - |
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| autoinjector | (noun) a hypodermic syringe to use in injecting yourself with a liquid | - |
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| bioelectricity | (noun) electric phenomena in animals or plants | - |
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| bisection | (noun) dividing into two equal parts | - |
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| callosectomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosotomy |
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| catalectic | (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot | - |
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| cholecystectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the gall bladder (usually for relief of gallstone pain) | - |
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| circumspection | (noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: caution |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: discreetness, discretion, prudence |
| clitoridectomy | (noun) excision of the clitoris | Synonyms: female circumcision |
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| collect | (noun) a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England | - |
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| collectable | (noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectible |
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| collectibility | (noun) The quality of being subject to payment or likely to be paid. | - |
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| collectible | (noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectable |
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| collecting | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collection |
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| collection | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collecting |
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| (noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: compendium |
| (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, ingathering, solicitation |
| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage |
| collective | (noun) members of a cooperative enterprise | - |
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| collectivisation | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivization |
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| collectivism | (noun) a political theory that the people should own the means of production | - |
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| (noun) Soviet communism | Synonyms: Bolshevism, sovietism |
| collectivist | (noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: left-winger, leftist |
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| collectivization | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivisation |
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| collector | (noun) the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes | - |
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| (noun) a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth | - |
| (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, gatherer |
| (noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: aggregator |
| confect | (noun) a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts | Synonyms: candy |
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| confection | (noun) the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components | Synonyms: concoction |
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| (noun) a food rich in sugar | Synonyms: sweet |
| confectionary | (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionery |
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| confectioner | (noun) someone who makes candies and other sweets | Synonyms: candymaker |
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| confectionery | (noun) the occupation and skills of a confectioner | - |
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| (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionary |
| (noun) candy and other sweets considered collectively | - |
| conjecture | (noun) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) | Synonyms: speculation |
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| (noun) reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence | - |
| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
| connectedness | (noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
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| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connection, link |
| connecter | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connection, connective, connector, connexion |
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| connection | (noun) the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | Synonyms: connexion, joining |
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| (noun) shifting from one form of transportation to another | Synonyms: connexion |
| (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connective, connector, connexion |
| (noun) the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: association, connexion |
| (noun) a supplier (especially of narcotics) | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship) | - |
| (noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | Synonyms: connectedness, connexion |
| (noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connexion, link |
| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connectedness, link |
| connective | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connector, connexion |
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| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, continuative |
| connectivity | (noun) the property of being connected or the degree to which something has connections | - |
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| connector | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connective, connexion |
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| conspectus | (noun) an overall summary | - |
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| convection | (noun) the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion | - |
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| (noun) (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere | - |
| convector | (noun) a space heater that transfers heat to the surrounding air by convection | - |
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| correction | (noun) the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right | Synonyms: rectification |
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| (noun) treatment of a specific defect | - |
| (noun) the act of disciplining | Synonyms: discipline |
| (noun) a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases | - |
| (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastening, chastisement |
| (noun) something substituted for an error | - |
| (noun) a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure | Synonyms: fudge factor |
| corrections | (noun) the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole | - |
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| (noun) the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders | Synonyms: department of corrections |
| correctitude | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: properness, propriety |
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| corrective | (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: restorative |
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| correctness | (noun) conformity to fact or truth | Synonyms: rightness |
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| (noun) the quality of conformity to social expectations | - |
| counterproject | (noun) a project, scheme, or proposal brought forward in opposition to another, as in the negotiation of a treaty. | - |
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| cytoarchitectonics | (noun) the cellular composition of a bodily structure | Synonyms: cytoarchitecture |
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| cytoarchitecture | (noun) the cellular composition of a bodily structure | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonics |
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| defect | (noun) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: blemish, mar |
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| (noun) a failing or deficiency | Synonyms: shortcoming |
| (noun) an imperfection in an object or machine | Synonyms: fault, flaw |
| (noun) an imperfection in a bodily system | - |
| defection | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: apostasy, renunciation |
| defectiveness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: faultiness |
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| defector | (noun) a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) | Synonyms: deserter |
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| deflection | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation, diversion |
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| (noun) the property of being bent or deflected | Synonyms: bending, deflexion |
| (noun) the amount by which a propagating wave is bent | Synonyms: deflexion, refraction |
| (noun) the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position | Synonyms: deflexion |
| (noun) a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting | Synonyms: warp |
| deflector | (noun) a device intended to turn aside the flow of something (water or air or smoke etc) | - |
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| dejectedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dispiritedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| dejection | (noun) a state of melancholy depression | - |
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| (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool |
| delectability | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: deliciousness, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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| delectation | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: enjoyment |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delight |
| detectability | (noun) The state of being noticeable. | - |
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| detecting | (noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detection, detective work, sleuthing |
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| detection | (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: catching, espial, spotting, spying |
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| (noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detecting, detective work, sleuthing |
| (noun) the perception that something has occurred or some state exists | Synonyms: sensing |
| (noun) the detection that a signal is being received | Synonyms: signal detection |
| detective | (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: investigator, police detective, tec |
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| (noun) an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public | - |
| detector | (noun) any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner | Synonyms: sensing element, sensor |
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| (noun) electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity | - |
| (noun) rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave | Synonyms: demodulator |
| dialect | (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: accent, idiom |
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| dialectic | (noun) any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments | - |
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| (noun) a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction | - |
| dialectician | (noun) a logician skilled in dialectic | - |
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| dialectics | (noun) a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces | - |
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| dialectology | (noun) the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects | - |
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| dielectric | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: insulator, nonconductor |
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| dielectrolysis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: cataphoresis, electrophoresis, ionophoresis |
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| direction | (noun) the act of managing something | Synonyms: management |
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| (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: guidance, steering |
| (noun) a general course along which something has a tendency to develop | - |
| (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, focal point, focus, focusing, focussing |
| (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, counselling, guidance |
| (noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: charge, commission |
| (noun) a message describing how something is to be done | Synonyms: instruction |
| (noun) a line leading to a place or point | Synonyms: way |
| (noun) the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves | - |
| directionality | (noun) the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | Synonyms: directivity |
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| (noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction | - |
| directioner | (noun) a fan on the band One Direction | - |
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| directive | (noun) a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity | - |
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| directiveness | (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directivity |
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| directivity | (noun) the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | Synonyms: directionality |
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| (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directiveness |
| directmate | (noun) A type of problem where White, moving first, is required to checkmate Black in a specified number of moves against any defence. | - |
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| directness | (noun) trueness of course toward a goal | Synonyms: straightness |
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| (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, forthrightness, frankness |