| aegir | (noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: bore, eager, eagre, tidal bore |
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| aegis | (noun) kindly endorsement and guidance | Synonyms: auspices, protection |
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| (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: breastplate, egis |
| allegiance | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: commitment, dedication, loyalty |
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| (noun) the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) | Synonyms: fealty |
| aquilegia | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilege, columbine |
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| beginner | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: initiate, novice, tiro, tyro |
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| (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: father, founder, founding father |
| beginning | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: commencement, start |
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| (noun) the first part or section of something | - |
| (noun) the event consisting of the start of something | - |
| (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: origin, root, rootage, source |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| besieging | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, military blockade, siege |
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| bluegill | (noun) important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Lepomis macrochirus |
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| caregiver | (noun) a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult | - |
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| (noun) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability | Synonyms: health care provider, health professional, PCP, primary care provider |
| collegian | (noun) a student (or former student) at a college or university | Synonyms: college boy, college man |
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| cystoplegia | (noun) paralysis of the urinary bladder | Synonyms: cystoparalysis |
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| diplegia | (noun) paralysis of corresponding parts on both sides of the body | - |
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| egis | (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: aegis, breastplate |
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| elegist | (noun) the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead | - |
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| florilegium | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: garland, miscellany |
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| gynostegium | (noun) the crown of the stamen in plants of the genus Asclepias | - |
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| hegira | (noun) a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment | Synonyms: exodus, hejira |
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| hemiplegia | (noun) paralysis of one side of the body | Synonyms: unilateral paralysis |
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| hemiplegic | (noun) a person who has hemiplegia (is paralyzed on one side of the body) | - |
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| homegirl | (noun) a fellow female member of a youth gang | - |
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| illegibility | (noun) the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered | - |
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| illegitimacy | (noun) unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law | - |
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| (noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, bastardy |
| illegitimate | (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: bastard, by-blow, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
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| legibility | (noun) a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read | Synonyms: readability |
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| (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: discernability |
| leging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, legging |
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| legion | (noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: horde, host |
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| (noun) a large military unit | - |
| (noun) association of ex-servicemen | - |
| (noun) archaic terms for army | Synonyms: host |
| legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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| legionella | (noun) the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease | Synonyms: Legionella pneumophilia |
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| legionnaire | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionary |
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| legislating | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislation |
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| legislation | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislating |
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| (noun) law enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: statute law |
| legislator | (noun) someone who makes or enacts laws | - |
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| legislatorship | (noun) the office of legislator | - |
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| legislature | (noun) persons who make or amend or repeal laws | Synonyms: general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body |
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| legitimacy | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law | - |
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| (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: authenticity, genuineness |
| legitimation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legalization |
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| (noun) the act of rendering a person legitimate | - |
| megillah | (noun) (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account | - |
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| megilp | (noun) a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine | Synonyms: magilp |
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| monoplegia | (noun) paralysis of a single limb | - |
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| ophthalmoplegia | (noun) paralysis of the motor nerves of the eye | - |
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| paraplegia | (noun) paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma) | - |
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| paraplegic | (noun) a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down) | - |
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| physostegia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Physostegia having sessile linear to oblong leaves and showy white or rose or lavender flowers | - |
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| quadriplegia | (noun) paralysis of both arms and both legs | - |
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| quadriplegic | (noun) a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs | - |
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| regicide | (noun) the act of killing a king | - |
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| (noun) someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king | - |
| regime | (noun) (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) | Synonyms: regimen |
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| (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, government |
| regimen | (noun) (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) | Synonyms: regime |
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| regiment | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, which can be divided into several companies, squadrons, or batteries and often into two battalions. | - |
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| regimentals | (noun) the military uniform and insignia of a regiment | - |
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| regimentation | (noun) the imposition of order or discipline | - |
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| region | (noun) a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve | Synonyms: area |
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| (noun) a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about | Synonyms: realm |
| (noun) the extended spatial location of something | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth | - |
| (noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | Synonyms: neighborhood |
| regionalism | (noun) loyalty to the interests of a particular region | - |
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| (noun) a feature (as a pronunciation or expression or custom) that is characteristic of a particular region | - |
| (noun) a foreign policy that defines the international interests of a country in terms of particular geographic areas | - |
| regionality | (noun) The property of being of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district. | - |
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| (noun) The property of being of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region. | - |
| register | (noun) a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device | - |
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| (noun) an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room | - |
| (noun) a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill | Synonyms: cash register |
| (noun) (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind | - |
| (noun) (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments | - |
| (noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: registry |
| (noun) a book in which names and transactions are listed | - |
| registrant | (noun) a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby) | - |
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| registrar | (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, recorder |
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| (noun) the administrator responsible for student records | - |
| (noun) a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company | - |
| registration | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrollment, enrolment |
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| (noun) the act of adjusting something to match a standard | Synonyms: adjustment, readjustment |
| (noun) (music) the sound property resulting from a combination of organ stops used to perform a particular piece of music; the technique of selecting and adjusting organ stops | - |
| (noun) a document certifying an act of registering | - |
| (noun) the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time | Synonyms: enrollment |
| registry | (noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: register |
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| sacrilegiousness | (noun) profaneness by virtue of committing sacrilege | - |
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| strategian | (noun) an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) | Synonyms: strategist |
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| strategics | (noun) the science or art of strategy | - |
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| strategist | (noun) an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) | Synonyms: strategian |
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