| appellant | (noun) the party who appeals a decision of a lower court | Synonyms: plaintiff in error |
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| appellation | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellative, denomination, designation |
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| (noun) a geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown | - |
| appellative | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, denomination, designation |
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| arcella | (noun) an amoeba-like protozoan with a chitinous shell resembling an umbrella | - |
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| belladonna | (noun) an alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna plant that is used medicinally | - |
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| (noun) perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine | Synonyms: Atropa belladonna, belladonna plant, deadly nightshade |
| bellarmine | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: greybeard, long-beard, longbeard |
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| cancellation | (noun) the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement | - |
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| (noun) the speech act of revoking or annulling or making void | - |
| canella | (noun) highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic | Synonyms: canella bark, white cinnamon |
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| cellar | (noun) the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage | Synonyms: basement |
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| (noun) storage space where wines are stored | Synonyms: wine cellar |
| (noun) an excavation where root vegetables are stored | Synonyms: root cellar |
| cellarage | (noun) a storage area in a cellar | - |
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| (noun) a charge for storing goods in a cellar | - |
| cellaret | (noun) sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | Synonyms: minibar |
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| chlorella | (noun) any alga of the genus Chlorella | - |
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| christella | (noun) any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds | - |
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| columella | (noun) a small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal | - |
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| constellation | (noun) an arrangement of parts or elements | Synonyms: configuration |
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| (noun) a configuration of stars as seen from the earth | - |
| crenellation | (noun) the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows | Synonyms: crenelation |
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| (noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: battlement, crenelation |
| dinoflagellate | (noun) chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton | - |
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| fella | (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
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| fellah | (noun) an agricultural laborer in Arab countries | - |
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| fellatio | (noun) oral stimulation of the penis | Synonyms: fellation |
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| fellation | (noun) oral stimulation of the penis | Synonyms: fellatio |
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| fenestella | (noun) oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault | Synonyms: lunette |
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| flagellant | (noun) a person who whips himself as a religious penance | - |
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| (noun) a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification | - |
| flagellate | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore |
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| flagellation | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flogging, lashing, tanning, whipping |
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| (noun) beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation | - |
| fraxinella | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather | Synonyms: burning bush, Dictamnus alba, dittany, gas plant |
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| gentianella | (noun) low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Gentiana acaulis |
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| glabella | (noun) a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges | Synonyms: mesophyron |
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| helvella | (noun) any fungus of the genus Helvella having the ascocarps stalked or pleated or often in folds | - |
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| interpellation | (noun) the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts | Synonyms: interjection, interpolation, interposition |
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| (noun) (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy | - |
| jellaba | (noun) a loose cloak with a hood; worn in the Middle East and northern Africa | - |
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| klebsiella | (noun) a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections | - |
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| lamella | (noun) thin plate | - |
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| (noun) a thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form bones | - |
| (noun) any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus | Synonyms: gill |
| 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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| miscellanea | (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
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| miscellany | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, garland |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| mozzarella | (noun) mild white Italian cheese | - |
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| nigella | (noun) any plant of the genus Nigella | - |
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| novella | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novelette |
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| paella | (noun) saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken | - |
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| panetella | (noun) a long slender cigar | Synonyms: panatela, panetela |
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| parcellation | (noun) the division into parcels | - |
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| patella | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneecap, kneepan |
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| pellagra | (noun) a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments | Synonyms: Alpine scurvy, maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, mayidism, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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| propellant | (noun) any substance that propels | Synonyms: propellent |
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| pseudorubella | (noun) a viral disease of infants and young children; characterized by abrupt high fever and mild sore throat; a few days later there is a faint pinkish rash that lasts for a few hours to a few days | Synonyms: exanthema subitum, roseola infantilis, roseola infantum |
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| repellant | (noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellent |
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| (noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellent |
| (noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellent |
| roccella | (noun) a source of the dye archil and of litmus | Synonyms: Roccella tinctoria |
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| rubella | (noun) a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester | Synonyms: epidemic roseola, German measles, three-day measles |
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| salmonella | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| saltcellar | (noun) a small container for holding salt at the dining table | - |
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| sequella | (noun) a secondary consequence | - |
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| shellac | (noun) a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood | Synonyms: shellac varnish |
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| (noun) lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white | - |
| shigella | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| tarantella | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantelle |
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| (noun) music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella | - |
| tessella | (noun) a small tessera | - |
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| tessellation | (noun) the act of adorning with mosaic | - |
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| (noun) the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern | - |
| umbrella | (noun) a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets | - |
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| (noun) having the function of uniting a group of similar things | - |
| (noun) a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy | - |
| umbrellawort | (noun) a plant of the genus Mirabilis | - |
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| varicella | (noun) an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body | Synonyms: chickenpox |
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| vitellarium | (noun) A modified part of the ovary that in many flatworms and rotifers produces yolk-filled cells serving to nourish the true eggs. | - |
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| vorticella | (noun) any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk | - |
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| zooflagellate | (noun) flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics | Synonyms: zoomastigote |
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