| accessibility | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: availability, availableness, handiness |
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| (noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: approachability |
| admissibility | (noun) acceptability by virtue of being admissible | - |
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| afibrinogenemia | (noun) the absence of fibrinogen in the plasma leading to prolonged bleeding | - |
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| agribusiness | (noun) a large-scale farming enterprise | Synonyms: agriculture, factory farm |
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| alibi | (noun) (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question | - |
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| (noun) a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Synonyms: exculpation, excuse, self-justification |
| alloantibody | (noun) an antibody that occurs naturally against foreign tissues from a person of the same species | Synonyms: isoantibody |
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| amphibia | (noun) the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water, frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, caecilians | Synonyms: class Amphibia |
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| amphibian | (noun) cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form | - |
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| (noun) an airplane designed to take off and land on water | Synonyms: amphibious aircraft |
| (noun) a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water | Synonyms: amphibious vehicle |
| amphibole | (noun) a mineral or mineral variety belonging to the amphibole group | - |
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| amphibolite | (noun) a metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase | - |
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| amphibology | (noun) an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes | Synonyms: amphiboly |
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| amphiboly | (noun) an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes | Synonyms: amphibology |
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| amphibrach | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember') | - |
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| angwantibo | (noun) a kind of yellow or golden lemur (Arctocebus calabarensis) | Synonyms: Arctocebus calabarensis, golden potto |
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| antibacterial | (noun) any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: antibacterial drug, bactericide |
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| antibaryon | (noun) the antiparticle of a baryon; a hadron with a baryon number of -1 | - |
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| antibiosis | (noun) an association between organisms that is harmful to one of them or between organisms and a metabolic product of another | - |
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| antibiotic | (noun) a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections | Synonyms: antibiotic drug |
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| antibody | (noun) any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response | - |
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| arariba | (noun) Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood | Synonyms: Centrolobium robustum |
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| assibilation | (noun) pronunciation with a sibilant (hissing or whistling) sound | Synonyms: sibilation |
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| (noun) the development of a consonant phoneme into a sibilant | - |
| attribute | (noun) an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity | - |
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| (noun) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished | Synonyms: dimension, property |
| attribution | (noun) assigning to a cause or source | Synonyms: ascription |
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| (noun) assigning some quality or character to a person or thing | Synonyms: ascription |
| audibility | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibleness |
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| audible | (noun) a football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage | - |
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| audibleness | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibility |
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| autoantibody | (noun) an antibody acting against tissues of the organism that produces it | - |
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| balibago | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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| beriberi | (noun) avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1) | - |
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| bib | (noun) a napkin tied under the chin of a child while eating | - |
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| (noun) top part of an apron; covering the chest | - |
| bible | (noun) a book regarded as authoritative in its field | - |
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| bibliographer | (noun) someone trained in compiling bibliographies | - |
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| bibliography | (noun) a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.) | - |
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| bibliolatry | (noun) the worship of the Bible | Synonyms: Bible-worship |
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| bibliomania | (noun) preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books | - |
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| bibliophile | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: book lover, booklover |
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| bibliopole | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopolist |
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| bibliopolist | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopole |
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| bibliothec | (noun) a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services | Synonyms: librarian |
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| bibliotheca | (noun) a collection of books | - |
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| bibliotics | (noun) the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity | - |
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| bibliotist | (noun) someone who engages in bibliotics | - |
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| bribe | (noun) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment | Synonyms: payoff |
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| briber | (noun) someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act | Synonyms: suborner |
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| bribery | (noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | Synonyms: graft |
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| caipiblack | (noun) a variation of the Caipirinha made with black vodka instead of cachaça. | - |
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| caliber | (noun) a degree or grade of excellence or worth | Synonyms: calibre, quality |
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| (noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: bore, calibre, gauge |
| calibration | (noun) the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument | Synonyms: standardisation, standardization |
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| calibre | (noun) a degree or grade of excellence or worth | Synonyms: caliber, quality |
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| (noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: bore, caliber, gauge |
| cannibal | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagite, anthropophagus, man-eater |
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| cannibalism | (noun) the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind | - |
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| capibara | (noun) pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | Synonyms: capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
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| caribe | (noun) small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals | Synonyms: pirana, piranha |
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| caribou | (noun) Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America | Synonyms: Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus, reindeer |
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| ceibo | (noun) small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered | Synonyms: common coral tree, cry-baby tree, crybaby tree, Erythrina crista-galli |
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| celecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Celebrex) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract | Synonyms: Celebrex |
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| celibacy | (noun) abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | Synonyms: chastity, sexual abstention |
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| (noun) an unmarried status | - |
| celibate | (noun) an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity | - |
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| clofibrate | (noun) a drug (trade name Atromid-S) that reduces lipids in the blood serum; used to treat some cardiovascular diseases | Synonyms: Atromid-S |
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| collectibility | (noun) The quality of being subject to payment or likely to be paid. | - |
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| collectible | (noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectable |
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| combustibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibleness |
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| combustible | (noun) a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power | Synonyms: combustible material |
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| combustibleness | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibility |
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| comestible | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
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| compatibility | (noun) capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of sympathetic understanding | - |
| comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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| compressibility | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: sponginess, squeezability |
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| contemptibility | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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| contribution | (noun) act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity | Synonyms: donation |
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| (noun) a writing for publication especially one of a collection of writings as an article or story | - |
| (noun) the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result | Synonyms: part, share |
| (noun) a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause | Synonyms: donation |
| (noun) an amount of money contributed | - |
| contributor | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: subscriber |
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| (noun) a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book | - |
| convertibility | (noun) the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction) | - |
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| convertible | (noun) a car that has top that can be folded or removed | - |
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| (noun) a sofa that can be converted into a bed | Synonyms: sofa bed |
| (noun) a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock) | Synonyms: convertible security |
| copaiba | (noun) an oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments | Synonyms: balsam capivi, copaiba balsam |
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| corncrib | (noun) a crib for storing and drying ears of corn | - |
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| corruptibility | (noun) the capability of being corrupted | - |
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| credibility | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibleness |
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| credibleness | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibility |
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| crib | (noun) a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two | Synonyms: cribbage |
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| (noun) the cards discarded by players at cribbage | - |
| (noun) baby bed with high sides made of slats | Synonyms: cot |
| (noun) a bin or granary for storing grains | - |
| (noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) | Synonyms: pony, trot |
| cribbage | (noun) a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two | Synonyms: crib |
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| crucible | (noun) a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions | Synonyms: melting pot |
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| deciban | (noun) a unit of information, one tenth of a ban. | - |
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| decibel | (noun) a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity | Synonyms: dB |
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| deductible | (noun) a clause in an insurance policy that relieves the insurer of responsibility to pay the initial loss up to a stated amount | - |
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| (noun) (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax) | - |
| defensibility | (noun) capability of being defended | - |
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| defibrillation | (noun) treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator) | - |
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| defibrillator | (noun) an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation | - |
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| deliberateness | (noun) the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision | Synonyms: deliberation |
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| (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberation, slowness, unhurriedness |
| deliberation | (noun) the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision | Synonyms: deliberateness |
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| (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberateness, slowness, unhurriedness |
| (noun) planning something carefully and intentionally | Synonyms: calculation |
| (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: advisement, weighing |
| (noun) (usually plural) discussion of all sides of a question | - |
| deoxyribose | (noun) a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids | - |
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| destructibility | (noun) vulnerability to destruction | - |
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| detribalisation | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalization |
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| (noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalization |
| detribalization | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalisation |
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| (noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalisation |
| diatribe | (noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: fulmination |
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| dibber | (noun) a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs | Synonyms: dibble |
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| dibble | (noun) a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs | Synonyms: dibber |
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| dibbuk | (noun) (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior | Synonyms: dybbuk |
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| dibrach | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables | Synonyms: pyrrhic |
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| dibranch | (noun) cephalopods having two gills | Synonyms: dibranchiate, dibranchiate mollusk |
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| dibranchiate | (noun) cephalopods having two gills | Synonyms: dibranch, dibranchiate mollusk |
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