| adverbial | (noun) a word or group of words function as an adverb | - |
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| advertorial | (noun) an advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report | - |
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| aerial | (noun) a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer | Synonyms: forward pass |
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| (noun) an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals | Synonyms: antenna, transmitting aerial |
| aerialist | (noun) an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze) | - |
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| antialiasing | (noun) (computer graphics) a technique that is used to smooth jagged distortions in curves and diagonal lines so they appear smoother | - |
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| antibacterial | (noun) any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: antibacterial drug, bactericide |
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| antimalarial | (noun) a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria | Synonyms: antimalarial drug |
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| antimicrobial | (noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobic, disinfectant, germicide |
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| artificialism | (noun) Czech surrealism founded in 1928 by Jindrich Styrsky and Toyen (Marie Cerminova). | - |
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| artificiality | (noun) the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally | - |
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| bestiality | (noun) sexual activity between a person and an animal | Synonyms: sodomy, zooerastia, zooerasty |
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| (noun) the stupid brutal quality of a beast | - |
| bialy | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialystoker |
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| bialystoker | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialy |
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| bicentennial | (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentenary |
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| biennial | (noun) (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season | - |
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| bilabial | (noun) a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/ | - |
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| binomial | (noun) (mathematics) a quantity expressed as a sum or difference of two terms; a polynomial with two terms | - |
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| burial | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burying |
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| (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture |
| centennial | (noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: centenary |
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| ceremonial | (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance |
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| colloquialism | (noun) a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | - |
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| colonial | (noun) a resident of a colony | - |
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| colonialism | (noun) exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country | - |
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| colonialist | (noun) a believer in colonialism | - |
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| commercial | (noun) a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television | Synonyms: commercial message |
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| commercialisation | (noun) the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce | Synonyms: commercialization |
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| commercialism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, mercantilism |
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| commercialization | (noun) the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce | Synonyms: commercialisation |
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| confidentiality | (noun) discretion in keeping secret information | - |
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| (noun) the state of being secret | - |
| congeniality | (noun) a congenial disposition | - |
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| (noun) compatibility between persons | Synonyms: congenialness |
| congenialness | (noun) compatibility between persons | Synonyms: congeniality |
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| controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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| conviviality | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: jollification, merrymaking |
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| (noun) a jovial nature | Synonyms: joviality |
| cordial | (noun) strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal | Synonyms: liqueur |
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| cordiality | (noun) a cordial disposition | Synonyms: amity |
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| credential | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credentials |
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| credentials | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credential |
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| cruciality | (noun) a state of critical urgency | Synonyms: criticality, criticalness |
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| delabialization | (noun) the pronouncing of a sound without lip rounding. | - |
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| denial | (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, defense, demurrer |
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| (noun) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others | Synonyms: abnegation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation |
| (noun) the act of refusing to comply (as with a request) | - |
| (noun) the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | Synonyms: disaffirmation |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts | - |
| dial | (noun) the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours | - |
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| (noun) a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called | Synonyms: telephone dial |
| (noun) the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments | - |
| (noun) the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning | - |
| dialect | (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: accent, idiom |
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| dialectic | (noun) any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments | - |
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| (noun) a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction | - |
| dialectician | (noun) a logician skilled in dialectic | - |
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| dialectics | (noun) a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces | - |
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| dialectology | (noun) the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects | - |
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| dialog | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialogue |
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| (noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialogue, duologue |
| (noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialogue |
| dialogism | (noun) the use in a text of different tones or viewpoints, whose interaction or contradiction is important to the text's interpretation. | - |
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| dialogue | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialog |
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| (noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, duologue |
| (noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialog |
| (noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: negotiation, talks |
| dialysis | (noun) separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | - |
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| dialyzer | (noun) a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | Synonyms: dialysis machine |
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| differential | (noun) a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves | Synonyms: differential gear |
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| (noun) a quality that differentiates between similar things | - |
| (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derivative, derived function, differential coefficient, first derivative |
| editorial | (noun) an article giving opinions or perspectives | Synonyms: column, newspaper column |
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| editorialist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: columnist |
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| equatorial | (noun) a telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth's axis and the other one at right angles to it | - |
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| equinoctial | (noun) the great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles | Synonyms: celestial equator, equinoctial circle, equinoctial line |
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| espial | (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: catching, detection, spotting, spying |
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| essential | (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite |
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| essentiality | (noun) basic importance | Synonyms: essentialness |
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| essentialness | (noun) basic importance | Synonyms: essentiality |
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| existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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| existentialist | (noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
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| exponential | (noun) a function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent | Synonyms: exponential function |
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| extraterrestrial | (noun) a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere | Synonyms: alien, extraterrestrial being |
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| facial | (noun) care for the face that usually involves cleansing and massage and the application of cosmetic creams | - |
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| (noun) cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles | Synonyms: facial nerve, nervus facialis, seventh cranial nerve |
| factorial | (noun) the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer | - |
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| finial | (noun) an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a foliated fleur-de-lis | - |
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| gavial | (noun) large fish-eating Indian crocodilian with a long slender snout | Synonyms: Gavialis gangeticus |
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| geniality | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie |
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| haemodialysis | (noun) dialysis of the blood to remove toxic substances or metabolic wastes from the bloodstream; used in the case of kidney failure | Synonyms: hemodialysis |
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| hemodialysis | (noun) dialysis of the blood to remove toxic substances or metabolic wastes from the bloodstream; used in the case of kidney failure | Synonyms: haemodialysis |
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| hemodialyzer | (noun) a machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient's body | Synonyms: artificial kidney |
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| immateriality | (noun) the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter | Synonyms: incorporeality |
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| (noun) complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration | - |
| impartiality | (noun) an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally | Synonyms: nonpartisanship |
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| imperial | (noun) a piece of luggage carried on top of a coach | - |
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| (noun) a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III | Synonyms: imperial beard |
| imperialism | (noun) any instance of aggressive extension of authority | - |
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| (noun) a political orientation that advocates imperial interests | - |
| (noun) a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries | - |
| imperialist | (noun) a believer in imperialism | - |
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| imperialness | (noun) The quality of being related to an empire, emperor, or empress. | - |
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| industrialisation | (noun) the development of industry on an extensive scale | Synonyms: industrial enterprise, industrialization |
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| industrialism | (noun) an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship | - |
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| industrialist | (noun) someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise | - |
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| industrialization | (noun) the development of industry on an extensive scale | Synonyms: industrial enterprise, industrialisation |
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| inessential | (noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: nonessential |
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| inessentiality | (noun) not of basic importance | - |
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| infomercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: informercial |
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| informercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: infomercial |
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| initial | (noun) the first letter of a word (especially a person's name) | - |
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| initialisation | (noun) (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position | Synonyms: initialization, low-level formatting |
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| initialism | (noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately | - |
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| (noun) a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word | Synonyms: acronym |
| initialization | (noun) (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position | Synonyms: initialisation, low-level formatting |
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| insubstantiality | (noun) lacking substance or reality | - |
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| (noun) lack of solid substance and strength | - |
| joviality | (noun) a jovial nature | Synonyms: conviviality |
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| (noun) feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor | Synonyms: jolliness, jollity |
| labial | (noun) a consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips | Synonyms: labial consonant |
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| marsupial | (noun) mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried | Synonyms: pouched mammal |
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| material | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: cloth, fabric, textile |
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| (noun) things needed for doing or making something | - |
| (noun) information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form | - |
| (noun) a person judged suitable for admission or employment | - |
| (noun) the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object | Synonyms: stuff |
| materialisation | (noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: manifestation, materialization |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialization, offspring |
| (noun) the process of coming into being; becoming reality | Synonyms: materialization |
| materialism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality | Synonyms: physicalism |
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| (noun) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters | Synonyms: philistinism |
| materialist | (noun) someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter | - |
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| (noun) someone with great regard for material possessions | - |
| materiality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporality, corporeality, physicalness |
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| (noun) relevance requiring careful consideration | - |
| materialization | (noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: manifestation, materialisation |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialisation, offspring |
| (noun) the process of coming into being; becoming reality | Synonyms: materialisation |