| attachment | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: fastening |
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| (noun) the act of attaching or affixing something | Synonyms: affixation |
| (noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion |
| (noun) a supplementary part or accessory | - |
| (noun) a connection that fastens things together | Synonyms: bond |
| (noun) a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding | - |
| (noun) a feeling of affection for a person or an institution | Synonyms: fond regard |
| attorneyship | (noun) the position of attorney | - |
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| aught | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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| aurochs | (noun) large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle | Synonyms: Bos primigenius, urus |
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| (noun) European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison | Synonyms: Bison bonasus, wisent |
| australopithecine | (noun) any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago | - |
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| autarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autocracy |
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| (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarky |
| authentication | (noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: certification |
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| (noun) a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity | Synonyms: assay-mark, hallmark |
| authenticator | (noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: appraiser |
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| authenticity | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: genuineness, legitimacy |
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| author | (noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | Synonyms: writer |
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| (noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: generator, source |
| authoress | (noun) a woman author | - |
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| authorisation | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorization, empowerment |
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| (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authority, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authority, authorization, sanction |
| (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorization, mandate |
| authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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| authoritarian | (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
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| authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| authorities | (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: government, regime |
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| authority | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
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| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, sanction |
| (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
| (noun) an authoritative written work | - |
| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
| (noun) an expert whose views are taken as definitive | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | - |
| authorization | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, empowerment |
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| (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, dominance, potency, say-so |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, sanction |
| (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, mandate |
| authorizer | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authoriser |
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| authorship | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: composition, penning, writing |
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| (noun) the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing | Synonyms: paternity |
| autobahn | (noun) an expressway in a German-speaking country | - |
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| autobiographer | (noun) someone who writes their own biography | - |
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| autobiography | (noun) a biography of yourself | - |
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| autochthon | (noun) the earliest known inhabitants of a region | - |
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| autochthony | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: endemism, indigenousness |
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| autograph | (noun) something written by one's own hand | - |
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| (noun) a person's own signature | Synonyms: John Hancock |
| automysophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being dirty | - |
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| autophyte | (noun) plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances | Synonyms: autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism |
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| autoradiograph | (noun) a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed | - |
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| autoradiography | (noun) producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed | - |
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| autotroph | (noun) plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances | Synonyms: autophyte, autophytic plant, autotrophic organism |
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| avalanche | (noun) a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain | - |
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| (noun) a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things | - |
| avouchment | (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: affirmation, avowal |
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| axerophthol | (noun) any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes | Synonyms: A, antiophthalmic factor, vitamin A |
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| ayah | (noun) (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children | - |
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| ayatollah | (noun) a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well | - |
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| azadirachtin | (noun) insecticide | - |
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| azathioprine | (noun) an immunosuppressive drug (trade name Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ | Synonyms: Imuran |
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| azedarach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azederach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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| azederach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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| azimuth | (noun) the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian | Synonyms: AZ |
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| azithromycin | (noun) a systemic antibacterial medicine (trade name Zithromax) that is prescribed to treat bacterial infections in many different parts of the body | Synonyms: Zithromax |
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| babushka | (noun) a woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chin; worn by Russian peasant women | - |
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| babyhood | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: infancy |
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| (noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: early childhood, infancy |
| bacchanal | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| (noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts | Synonyms: bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken reveller |
| (noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus | Synonyms: bacchant |
| bacchanalia | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| bacchant | (noun) (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus | - |
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| (noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus | Synonyms: bacchanal |
| (noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts | Synonyms: bacchanal, drunken reveler, drunken reveller |
| bacchante | (noun) (classical mythology) a priestess or votary of Bacchus | - |
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| bachelor | (noun) a man who has never been married | Synonyms: unmarried man |
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| (noun) a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon | Synonyms: bachelor-at-arms, knight bachelor |
| bachelorette | (noun) a young unmarried woman who lives alone | Synonyms: bachelor girl |
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| bachelorhood | (noun) the state of being an unmarried man | - |
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| (noun) the time of a man's life prior to marriage | - |
| backache | (noun) an ache localized in the back | - |
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| backbench | (noun) any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons | - |
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| backbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader | - |
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| backchat | (noun) light teasing repartee | Synonyms: banter, give-and-take, raillery |
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| backcloth | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backdrop, background |
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| backhand | (noun) a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke | Synonyms: backhand shot, backhand stroke |
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| backhander | (noun) a backhanded blow | - |
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| backhoe | (noun) an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth | - |
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| backlash | (noun) an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence | - |
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| (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: rebound, recoil, repercussion |
| backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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| backscratcher | (noun) a long-handled scratcher for scratching your back | - |
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| (noun) someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage | - |
| backsheesh | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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| backstitch | (noun) an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one | - |
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| backwash | (noun) the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward | Synonyms: wake |
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| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, race, slipstream, wash |
| (noun) the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | Synonyms: aftermath, wake |
| bacteriochlorophyll | (noun) a substance in photosensitive bacteria that is related to but different from chlorophyll of higher plants | - |
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| bacteriophage | (noun) a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria | Synonyms: phage |
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| baht | (noun) the basic unit of money in Thailand | Synonyms: tical |
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| bailiffship | (noun) the office of bailiff | - |
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| bakehouse | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakery, bakeshop |
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| bakeshop | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakery |
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| baksheesh | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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| bakshis | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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| bakshish | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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| balanoposthitis | (noun) inflammation of both the head of the penis and the foreskin | - |
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| baldachin | (noun) ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar) | - |
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| balderdash | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle |
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| baldhead | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldpate, baldy, skin, skinhead |
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| ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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| balloonfish | (noun) similar to but smaller than porcupinefish | Synonyms: Diodon holocanthus |
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| ballyhoo | (noun) blatant or sensational promotion | Synonyms: hoopla, hype, plug |
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| bandwidth | (noun) a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel | - |
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| banishment | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: proscription |
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| (noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) | Synonyms: Coventry, ostracism |
| banshee | (noun) (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death | Synonyms: banshie |
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| banshie | (noun) (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death | Synonyms: banshee |
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| bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
| barbershop | (noun) a shop where men can get their hair cut | - |
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| barograph | (noun) a recording barometer; automatically records on paper the variations in atmospheric pressure | - |
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| barouche | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top | - |
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| barrelfish | (noun) blackish fish of New England waters | Synonyms: black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis |
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| barrelhouse | (noun) a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | Synonyms: honky-tonk |
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| bash | (noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, belt, knock, smash |
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| (noun) an uproarious party | Synonyms: brawl, do |
| bashfulness | (noun) feeling embarrassed due to modesty | Synonyms: abashment |
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| basidiolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is a basidiomycete | - |
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| basophil | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophile |
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| basophile | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophil |
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| basophilia | (noun) the tendency of cells to stain with basic dyes | - |
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| batch | (noun) a collection of things or persons to be handled together | Synonyms: clutch |
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| (noun) all the loaves of bread baked at the same time | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| batfish | (noun) bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins | - |
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| bath | (noun) a soaking and washing in a bathtub | - |
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| (noun) a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it) | - |
| (noun) an ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons | - |