| abnegation | (noun) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others | Synonyms: denial, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation |
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| (noun) the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief | - |
| abnegator | (noun) one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something | - |
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| acromegalia | (noun) enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor) | Synonyms: acromegaly |
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| acromegaly | (noun) enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor) | Synonyms: acromegalia |
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| adenomegaly | (noun) gland enlargement | - |
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| aggregate | (noun) the whole amount | Synonyms: sum, total, totality |
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| (noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: congeries, conglomeration |
| (noun) material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster | - |
| aggregation | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: assembling, collecting, collection |
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| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, assemblage, collection |
| aggregator | (noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: collector |
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| allegation | (noun) (law) a formal accusation against somebody (often in a court of law) | - |
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| (noun) statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove | Synonyms: allegement |
| assegai | (noun) the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa | Synonyms: assagai |
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| bodega | (noun) a small Hispanic shop selling wine and groceries | - |
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| budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| cardiomegaly | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the heart | Synonyms: enlarged heart, megacardia, megalocardia |
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| congregant | (noun) a member of a congregation (especially that of a church or synagogue) | - |
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| congregating | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregation |
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| congregation | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregating |
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| (noun) a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church | Synonyms: faithful, fold |
| (noun) an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together | - |
| cytomegalovirus | (noun) any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems | Synonyms: CMV |
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| dactylomegaly | (noun) abnormally large fingers or toes | - |
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| degaussing | (noun) the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field | - |
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| delegacy | (noun) the appointment of a delegate | - |
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| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegation, deputation, mission |
| (noun) the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | Synonyms: agency, representation |
| delegate | (noun) a person appointed or elected to represent others | - |
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| delegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegation, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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| delegation | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, deputation, mission |
| desegregation | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: integrating, integration |
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| disregard | (noun) willful lack of care and attention | Synonyms: neglect |
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| (noun) lack of attention and due care | Synonyms: neglect |
| egalitarian | (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: equalitarian |
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| egalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: equalitarianism |
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| egalite | (noun) social and political equality | Synonyms: egality |
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| egality | (noun) social and political equality | Synonyms: egalite |
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| electronegativity | (noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: negativity |
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| elegance | (noun) a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste | - |
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| (noun) a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics) | - |
| gregarine | (noun) vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates | - |
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| gregariousness | (noun) the quality of being gregarious--having a dislike of being alone | - |
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| hegari | (noun) Sudanese sorghums having white seeds; one variety grown in southwestern United States | - |
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| hepatomegaly | (noun) abnormal enlargement of the liver | Synonyms: megalohepatia |
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| ichthyostega | (noun) early tetrapod amphibian found in Greenland | - |
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| illegality | (noun) unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute | - |
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| inelegance | (noun) the quality of lacking refinement and good taste | - |
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| legacy | (noun) (law) a gift of personal property by will | Synonyms: bequest |
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| legalese | (noun) a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law | - |
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| legalisation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalization, legitimation |
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| legalism | (noun) strict conformity to the letter of the law rather than its spirit | - |
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| legality | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute | - |
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| legalization | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legitimation |
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| legate | (noun) a member of a legation | Synonyms: official emissary |
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| legatee | (noun) someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed | - |
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| legateship | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legation |
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| legation | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legateship |
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| (noun) a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister | Synonyms: foreign mission |
| megabat | (noun) large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit | Synonyms: fruit bat |
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| megabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobits or 10^6 (1,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Mb, Mbit |
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| megabucks | (noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, bundle, pile |
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| megabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes | Synonyms: M, MB, mebibyte, MiB |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes | Synonyms: M, MB |
| megacardia | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the heart | Synonyms: cardiomegaly, enlarged heart, megalocardia |
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| megacephaly | (noun) an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical | Synonyms: macrocephaly, megalocephaly |
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| megacolon | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the colon; can be congenital (as in Hirschsprung's disease) or acquired (as when children refuse to defecate) | - |
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| megacycle | (noun) one million periods per second | Synonyms: Mc, megacycle per second, megahertz, MHz |
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| megadeath | (noun) the death of a million people | - |
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| megadose | (noun) an exceptionally large dose, as of a drug or vitamin. | - |
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| megaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, one megaflops is a million floating point operations per second | Synonyms: MFLOP, million floating point operations per second |
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| megagametophyte | (noun) the female gametophyte produced by the megaspore of a plant that produces both microspore and megaspores | - |
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| megahertz | (noun) one million periods per second | Synonyms: Mc, megacycle, megacycle per second, MHz |
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| megahit | (noun) an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | Synonyms: blockbuster, smash hit |
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| megakaryocyte | (noun) a large bone marrow cell; regarded as the source of blood platelets | - |
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| megalith | (noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe) | Synonyms: megalithic structure |
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| megaloblast | (noun) abnormally large red blood cell present in pernicious anemia and folic acid deficiency | - |
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| megalocardia | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the heart | Synonyms: cardiomegaly, enlarged heart, megacardia |
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| megalocephaly | (noun) an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical | Synonyms: macrocephaly, megacephaly |
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| megalocyte | (noun) abnormally large red blood cell (associated with pernicious anemia) | Synonyms: macrocyte |
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| megalohepatia | (noun) abnormal enlargement of the liver | Synonyms: hepatomegaly |
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| megalomania | (noun) a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur | - |
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| megalomaniac | (noun) a pathological egotist | - |
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| megalopolis | (noun) a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns) | - |
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| megalosaur | (noun) gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe | Synonyms: megalosaurus |
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| megalosaurus | (noun) gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe | Synonyms: megalosaur |
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| megaphone | (noun) a cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice | - |
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| megapode | (noun) large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs | Synonyms: mound-bird, mound bird, mound builder, scrub fowl |
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| megasporangium | (noun) a plant structure that produces megaspores | Synonyms: macrosporangium |
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| megaspore | (noun) larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte | Synonyms: macrospore |
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| megasporophyll | (noun) in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only megasporangia | - |
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| megathere | (noun) gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America | Synonyms: ground sloth |
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| megatherian | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian mammal, megatheriid |
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| megatheriid | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian, megatherian mammal |
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| megaton | (noun) one million tons | - |
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| (noun) a measure of explosive power (of an atomic weapon) equal to that of one million tons of TNT | - |
| megawatt | (noun) a unit of power equal to one million watts | - |
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| mishegaas | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: meshugaas, mishegoss |
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| negation | (noun) the speech act of negating | - |
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| (noun) a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement | - |
| (noun) (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false | - |
| negative | (noun) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | - |
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| (noun) a reply of denial | - |
| negativeness | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativism, negativity |
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| (noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativity |
| (noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativity |
| negativism | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativity |
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| negativist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: defeatist |
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| (noun) someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked | - |
| negativity | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativism |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: electronegativity |
| (noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativeness |
| (noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativeness |
| negatron | (noun) an elementary particle with negative charge | Synonyms: electron |
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| nosegay | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: bouquet, corsage, posy |
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| omega | (noun) the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| (noun) the ending of a series or sequence | Synonyms: Z |
| oregano | (noun) pungent leaves used as seasoning with meats and fowl and in stews and soups and omelets | Synonyms: marjoram |
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| (noun) aromatic Eurasian perennial | Synonyms: marjoram, Origanum vulgare, pot marjoram, wild marjoram, winter sweet |
| paralegal | (noun) a person with specialized training who assists lawyers | Synonyms: legal assistant |
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| regaining | (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: restitution, restoration, return |
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| regalia | (noun) paraphernalia indicative of royalty (or other high office) | - |
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| (noun) especially fine or decorative clothing | Synonyms: array, raiment |
| regard | (noun) a long fixed look | Synonyms: gaze |
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| (noun) (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point | Synonyms: respect |
| (noun) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: attentiveness, heed, paying attention |
| (noun) an attitude of admiration or esteem | Synonyms: esteem, respect |
| (noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: compliments, wish |
| (noun) a feeling of friendship and esteem | Synonyms: respect |
| (noun) the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) | Synonyms: esteem, respect |
| regatta | (noun) a meeting for boat races | - |
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