| abridgment | (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, capsule, condensation |
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| acknowledgment | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgement |
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| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, recognition |
| anastigmat | (noun) compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images | - |
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| apophthegm | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: aphorism, apothegm |
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| apothegm | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: aphorism, apophthegm |
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| astigmatism | (noun) (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point | Synonyms: astigmia |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people | Synonyms: astigmia |
| astigmia | (noun) (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point | Synonyms: astigmatism |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people | Synonyms: astigmatism |
| augmentation | (noun) the act of augmenting | - |
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| (noun) the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original) | - |
| (noun) the amount by which something becomes greater | - |
| bagman | (noun) a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money | - |
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| (noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
| bogmat | (noun) having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America | Synonyms: mud midget, Wolffiella gladiata |
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| bregma | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium | - |
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| depigmentation | (noun) absence or loss of pigmentation (or less than normal pigmentation) in the skin or hair | - |
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| diaphragm | (noun) a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | Synonyms: stop |
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| (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves | - |
| (noun) a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix | Synonyms: contraceptive diaphragm, pessary |
| (noun) (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration | Synonyms: midriff |
| dislodgment | (noun) forced removal from a position of advantage | Synonyms: dislodgement |
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| dogma | (noun) a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative | - |
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| (noun) a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof | Synonyms: tenet |
| dogmatism | (noun) tendency to assert principles as undeniably true | - |
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| dogmatist | (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: doctrinaire |
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| enigma | (noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, mystery, secret |
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| (noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, conundrum, riddle |
| enigmaticness | (noun) Mysteriousness, complexity; the property of being puzzling or inexplicable. | - |
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| (noun) The quality of a person of puzzling, secretive or contradictory character. | - |
| figment | (noun) a contrived or fantastic idea | - |
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| fragment | (noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact | Synonyms: shard, sherd |
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| (noun) an incomplete piece | - |
| (noun) a piece broken off or cut off of something else | - |
| fragmentation | (noun) separating something into fine particles | Synonyms: atomisation, atomization |
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| (noun) the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk | - |
| (noun) the disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships | - |
| frogman | (noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: diver, underwater diver |
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| frogmouth | (noun) insectivorous bird of Australia and southeastern Asia having a wide frog-like mouth | - |
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| gagman | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagster, gagwriter |
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| (noun) a comedian who uses gags | Synonyms: standup comedian |
| gm | (noun) a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram | Synonyms: g, gram, gramme |
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| hangman | (noun) an executioner who hangs the condemned person | - |
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| hyperpigmentation | (noun) unusual darkening of the skin | - |
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| hypopigmentation | (noun) unusual lack of skin color | - |
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| hypozeugma | (noun) use of a series of subjects with a single predicate | - |
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| judgment | (noun) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | Synonyms: judgement, judicial decision |
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| (noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: assessment, judgement |
| (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment |
| (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judging |
| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgement, mind |
| (noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgement, legal opinion, opinion |
| kerugma | (noun) preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church | Synonyms: kerygma |
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| kerygma | (noun) preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church | Synonyms: kerugma |
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| kingmaker | (noun) an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence | - |
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| lodgment | (noun) the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily | Synonyms: lodgement, lodging |
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| magma | (noun) molten rock in the earth's crust | - |
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| neostigmine | (noun) a cholinergic drug (trade name Prostigmin) used to treat some ophthalmic conditions and to treat myasthenia gravis | Synonyms: Prostigmin |
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| nystagmus | (noun) involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders | - |
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| paradigm | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, image, prototype |
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| (noun) the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time | - |
| (noun) the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) | Synonyms: substitution class |
| (noun) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word | - |
| paregmenon | (noun) juxtaposing words having a common derivation (as in `sense and sensibility') | - |
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| pegmatite | (noun) a form of igneous rock consisting of extremely coarse granite resulting from the crystallization of magma rich in rare elements | - |
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| phlegm | (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, languor, lethargy, sluggishness |
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| (noun) expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness | Synonyms: sputum |
| (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality |
| phlegmatizer | (noun) a material added to an explosive to make it less susceptible to detonation and thus more stable and safer to handle and transport. | - |
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| photopigment | (noun) a special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina | - |
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| phragmacone | (noun) the thin conical chambered internal shell (either straight or curved) of a belemnite | Synonyms: phragmocone |
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| phragmocone | (noun) the thin conical chambered internal shell (either straight or curved) of a belemnite | Synonyms: phragmacone |
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| physostigmine | (noun) used in treatment of Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma | - |
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| pigman | (noun) a herder or swine | Synonyms: swineherd |
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| pigment | (noun) a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating | Synonyms: paint |
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| (noun) dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) | - |
| (noun) any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color | - |
| pigmentation | (noun) coloration of living tissues by pigment | - |
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| (noun) the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings | - |
| pigmy | (noun) an unusually small individual | Synonyms: pygmy |
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| pragmatic | (noun) an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land | Synonyms: pragmatic sanction |
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| pragmatics | (noun) the study of language use | - |
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| pragmatism | (noun) the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth | Synonyms: realism |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value | - |
| pragmatist | (noun) a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions | - |
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| (noun) an adherent of philosophical pragmatism | - |
| prejudgment | (noun) a judgment reached before the evidence is available | Synonyms: prejudgement |
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| pygmy | (noun) an unusually small individual | Synonyms: pigmy |
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| quagmire | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quag, slack |
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| rigmarole | (noun) a long and complicated and confusing procedure | Synonyms: rigamarole |
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| (noun) a set of confused and meaningless statements | Synonyms: rigamarole |
| ringmaster | (noun) the person in charge of performances in a circus ring | - |
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| segment | (noun) one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object | Synonyms: section |
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| (noun) one of the parts into which something naturally divides | - |
| segmentation | (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: division, partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization |
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| (noun) (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum | Synonyms: cleavage |
| sigma | (noun) the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| sigmoidectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the sigmoid colon (usually to remove a malignant tumor) | - |
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| sigmoidoscope | (noun) an endoscope (a flexible fiberoptic probe) for examining the sigmoid colon | Synonyms: flexible sigmoidoscope |
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| sigmoidoscopy | (noun) visual examination (with a sigmoidoscope) of the lower third of the colon in a search for polyps | Synonyms: flexible sigmoidoscopy |
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| smegma | (noun) a white secretion of the sebaceous glands of the foreskin | - |
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| sphygmomanometer | (noun) a pressure gauge for measuring blood pressure | - |
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| stalagmite | (noun) a cylinder of calcium carbonate projecting upward from the floor of a limestone cave | - |
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| stalagmometer | (noun) a device for investigating surface tension using the stalagmometric method. | Synonyms: stactometer, stalogometer |
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| stigma | (noun) a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease | - |
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| (noun) an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod | - |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: brand, mark, stain |
| (noun) the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil | - |
| stigmata | (noun) marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ | - |
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| stigmatic | (noun) a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) | Synonyms: stigmatist |
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| stigmatisation | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: branding, stigmatization |
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| stigmatism | (noun) normal eyesight | - |
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| (noun) (optics) condition of an optical system (as a lens) in which light rays from a single point converge in a single focal point | - |
| (noun) the condition of having or being marked by stigmata | - |
| stigmatist | (noun) a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| stigmatization | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: branding, stigmatisation |
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| strongman | (noun) a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence | - |
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| (noun) a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus | - |
| swagman | (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swagger, swaggie |
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| syntagm | (noun) a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit | Synonyms: syntagma |
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| syntagma | (noun) a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit | Synonyms: syntagm |
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| thingmabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingmajig | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| wigmaker | (noun) someone who makes and sells wigs | - |
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| wingman | (noun) the pilot who positions his aircraft outside and behind (on the wing of) the leader of a flying formation | - |
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| workingman | (noun) an employee who performs manual or industrial labor | Synonyms: working man, working person, workman |
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| zeugma | (noun) use of a verb with two or more complements, playing on the verb's polysemy, for humorous effect | - |
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