| abbreviation | (noun) shortening something by omitting parts of it | - |
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| (noun) a shortened form of a word or phrase | - |
| abbreviator | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abridger |
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| alleviant | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviator, palliative |
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| alleviation | (noun) the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Synonyms: easement, easing, relief |
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| (noun) the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced | Synonyms: assuagement, relief |
| alleviator | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, palliative |
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| (noun) a therapist who makes suffering more endurable | - |
| bedevilment | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: badgering, torment, worrying |
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| believing | (noun) the cognitive process that leads to convictions | - |
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| breviary | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily by certain priests and members of religious orders | - |
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| brevity | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: briefness, transience |
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| (noun) the use of brief expressions | - |
| clevis | (noun) a coupler shaped like the letter U with holes through each end so a bolt or pin can pass through the holes to complete the coupling; used to attach a drawbar to a plow or wagon or trailer etc. | - |
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| counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
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| coxsackievirus | (noun) enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis | Synonyms: Coxsackie virus |
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| crevice | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, fissure, scissure |
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| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, fissure |
| daredevil | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler |
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| daredevilry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredeviltry |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| deviance | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviation |
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| (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration |
| deviant | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
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| deviate | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, perv, perve, pervert |
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| deviation | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviance |
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| (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, digression, divagation, diversion |
| (noun) the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances | - |
| (noun) the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function | - |
| (noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, difference, divergence |
| deviationism | (noun) ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| device | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: gimmick, twist |
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| (noun) an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | - |
| (noun) an emblematic design (especially in heraldry) | - |
| (noun) any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery) | - |
| (noun) something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | - |
| devices | (noun) an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices' | - |
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| devil | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, dickens |
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| (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, daimon, demon, fiend |
| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, fiend, monster, ogre |
| (noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: heller, hellion |
| devilfish | (noun) extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned | Synonyms: manta, manta ray |
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| (noun) bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles | Synonyms: octopus |
| (noun) medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific | Synonyms: Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, grey whale |
| devilishness | (noun) The property of resembling or being characteristic of a devil. | - |
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| devilment | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| devilry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: deviltry |
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| (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
| deviltry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: devilry |
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| (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
| devilwood | (noun) small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits | Synonyms: American olive, Osmanthus americanus |
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| deviousness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: crookedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: obliqueness |
| devisal | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: contrivance |
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| devise | (noun) (law) a gift of real property by will | - |
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| (noun) a will disposing of real property | - |
| devisee | (noun) someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will | - |
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| deviser | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, planner |
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| devising | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: fashioning, making |
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| devisor | (noun) someone who devises real property in a will | - |
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| devitalisation | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalization |
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| devitalization | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalisation |
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| ecrevisse | (noun) small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | Synonyms: Old World crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
| eviction | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: dispossession, legal ouster |
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| (noun) action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved | Synonyms: constructive eviction |
| evidence | (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: grounds |
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| (noun) (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved | - |
| (noun) an indication that makes something evident | - |
| evil | (noun) morally objectionable behavior | Synonyms: immorality, iniquity, wickedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice | Synonyms: evilness |
| evildoer | (noun) a person who sins (without repenting) | Synonyms: sinner |
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| evildoing | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: transgression |
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| evilness | (noun) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice | Synonyms: evil |
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| evisceration | (noun) surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient | - |
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| (noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: disembowelment |
| (noun) altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value | - |
| grapevine | (noun) gossip spread by spoken communication | Synonyms: pipeline, word of mouth |
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| (noun) any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries | Synonyms: grape, grape vine |
| grevillea | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea | - |
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| inevitability | (noun) the quality of being unavoidable | Synonyms: inevitableness |
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| inevitable | (noun) an unavoidable event | - |
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| inevitableness | (noun) the quality of being unavoidable | Synonyms: inevitability |
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| leviathan | (noun) the largest or most massive thing of its kind | - |
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| (noun) monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament | - |
| levirate | (noun) the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line | - |
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| levis | (noun) a popular brand of jeans | Synonyms: Levi's |
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| levitation | (noun) the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means | - |
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| (noun) movement upward in virtue of lightness | - |
| (noun) the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means | - |
| levity | (noun) a manner lacking seriousness | - |
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| (noun) feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness | - |
| longevity | (noun) duration of service | Synonyms: length of service |
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| (noun) the property of being long-lived | Synonyms: seniority |
| mendelevium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol) | Synonyms: atomic number 101, Md, Mv |
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| microdevice | (noun) any very small device manufactured using microfabrication. | - |
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| nevirapine | (noun) a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (trade name Viramune) used to treat AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: Viramune |
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| peevishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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| (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, petulance |
| preview | (noun) a screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public | - |
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| (noun) an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future | Synonyms: prevue, trailer |
| prevision | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prescience |
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| (noun) a prophetic vision (as in a dream) | - |
| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prospicience |
| (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prediction |
| review | (noun) a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment | Synonyms: follow-up, followup, reexamination |
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| (noun) practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory | Synonyms: brushup |
| (noun) a formal or official examination | Synonyms: inspection |
| (noun) (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court) | - |
| (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, reassessment, revaluation |
| (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, recapitulation |
| (noun) an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) | Synonyms: critical review, critique, review article |
| (noun) a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians | Synonyms: revue |
| (noun) a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art | - |
| (noun) (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data | Synonyms: limited review |
| reviewer | (noun) a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day | Synonyms: commentator |
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| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: reader, referee |
| revilement | (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, insult, vilification |
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| revisal | (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revise, revision |
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| revise | (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revisal, revision |
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| reviser | (noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication | Synonyms: redact, redactor, rewrite man, rewriter |
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| revising | (noun) editing that involves writing something again | Synonyms: rewriting |
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| revision | (noun) the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) | Synonyms: alteration |
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| (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: rescript, rewrite |
| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revisal, revise |
| revisionism | (noun) a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism | - |
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| (noun) any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx | - |
| revisionist | (noun) a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position | - |
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| revitalisation | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalization, revival, revivification |
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| revitalization | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalisation, revival, revivification |
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| revival | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revivification |
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| (noun) an evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion | Synonyms: revival meeting |
| revivalism | (noun) an attempt to reawaken the evangelical faith | - |
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| revivalist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, gospeller |
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| revivification | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revival |
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| sansevieria | (noun) grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber | Synonyms: bowstring hemp |
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| stevia | (noun) any plant of the genus Stevia or the closely related genus Piqueria having glutinous foliage and white or purplish flowers; Central and South America | - |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Piqueria or the closely related genus Stevia | - |
| television | (noun) a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points | Synonyms: television system |
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| (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television receiver, television set, telly, tv, tv set |
| (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: telecasting, TV, video |
| televisuality | (noun) Quality of being of, relating to, or being suitable for broadcast by television. | - |
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| thieving | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, stealing, theft, thievery |
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| thievishness | (noun) having a disposition to steal | Synonyms: larcenous |
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| vaudeville | (noun) a variety show with songs and comic acts etc. | Synonyms: music hall |
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| vaudevillian | (noun) a performer who works in vaudeville | - |
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| weevil | (noun) any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles | - |
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