| aborticide | (noun) the act of destroying a fetus | Synonyms: feticide |
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| (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: abortifacient, abortion-inducing drug |
| academician | (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academic, faculty member |
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| (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: schoolman |
| (noun) someone elected to honorary membership in an academy | - |
| academicianship | (noun) the position of member of an honorary academy | - |
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| academicism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academism, scholasticism |
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| (noun) Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes. | - |
| (noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academism |
| acaricide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaracide |
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| achromaticity | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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| acoustician | (noun) a physicist who specializes in acoustics | - |
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| adiabaticity | (noun) The condition of occurring without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation). | - |
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| aeromedicine | (noun) the study and treatment of disorders associated with flight (especially with space flight) | Synonyms: aerospace medicine, aviation medicine |
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| aesthetician | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty | Synonyms: esthetician |
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| (noun) a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.) | Synonyms: esthetician |
| aficionado | (noun) a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer | - |
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| (noun) a fan of bull fighting | - |
| agnosticism | (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: scepticism, skepticism |
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| (noun) a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God | - |
| americium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms | Synonyms: Am, atomic number 95 |
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| amoxicillin | (noun) an antibiotic; a semisynthetic oral penicillin (trade names Amoxil and Larotid and Polymox and Trimox and Augmentin) used to treat bacterial infections | Synonyms: Amoxil, Augmentin, Larotid, Polymox, Trimox |
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| amphotericin | (noun) an antibiotic and antifungal agent | - |
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| ampicillin | (noun) semisynthetic penicillin (trade names Principen and Polycillin and SK-Ampicillin) | Synonyms: Polycillin, Principen, SK-Ampicillin |
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| analyticity | (noun) the property of being analytic | - |
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| anthropocentricity | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentrism |
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| anticipant | (noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipator |
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| anticipation | (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: prediction, prevision |
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| (noun) something expected (as on the basis of a norm) | Synonyms: expectancy |
| (noun) an expectation | Synonyms: expectancy |
| (noun) anticipating with confidence of fulfillment | Synonyms: expectation |
| anticipator | (noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipant |
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| apoliticism | (noun) Apathy and/or antipathy towards all political affiliations. | - |
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| appendicitis | (noun) inflammation of the vermiform appendix | - |
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| archaicism | (noun) the use of an archaic expression | Synonyms: archaism |
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| arithmetician | (noun) someone who specializes in arithmetic | - |
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| aromaticity | (noun) The property of having an aroma. | - |
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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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| asceticism | (noun) rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint | Synonyms: ascesis |
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| (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: austerity, nonindulgence |
| (noun) the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state | - |
| astrophysicist | (noun) an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies | - |
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| athleticism | (noun) intense energy | Synonyms: strenuosity |
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| atonicity | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atony |
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| auspiciousness | (noun) the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result | Synonyms: propitiousness |
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| authenticity | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: genuineness, legitimacy |
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| autoeroticism | (noun) using your own body as a sexual object | Synonyms: autoerotism |
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| avariciousness | (noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, cupidity |
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| bactericide | (noun) any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: antibacterial, antibacterial drug |
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| (noun) any chemical agent that destroys bacteria | Synonyms: bacteriacide |
| beautician | (noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: cosmetician |
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| beneficiary | (noun) the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: benefactive role |
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| (noun) the recipient of funds or other benefits | Synonyms: donee |
| beneficiation | (noun) crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques | Synonyms: mineral dressing, mineral extraction, mineral processing, ore dressing, ore processing |
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| benzylpenicillin | (noun) the penicillin that constitutes the principal component of many commercial antibiotics | Synonyms: penicillin G |
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| bioelectricity | (noun) electric phenomena in animals or plants | - |
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| biomedicine | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies the ability of organisms to withstand environmental stress (as in space travel) | - |
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| (noun) the branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice | - |
| biophysicist | (noun) a physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology | - |
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| capriciousness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| (noun) the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses | Synonyms: unpredictability |
| capsaicin | (noun) colorless pungent crystalline compound derived from capsicum; source of the hotness of hot peppers of the genus Capsicum such as chili and cayenne and jalapeno | - |
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| catholicity | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: universality |
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| ceramicist | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramist, potter, thrower |
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| cervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the uterine cervix | - |
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| chromaticity | (noun) the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength | Synonyms: hue |
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| classicism | (noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | Synonyms: classicalism |
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| classicist | (noun) an artistic person who adheres to classicism | - |
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| (noun) a student of ancient Greek and Latin | Synonyms: classical scholar |
| clinician | (noun) a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments | - |
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| codicil | (noun) a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will | - |
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| coefficient | (noun) a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic | - |
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| colchicine | (noun) an analgesic drug derived from the saffron plant and used to treat gout | - |
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| complicity | (noun) guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense | - |
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| concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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| cosmetician | (noun) someone who sells or applies cosmetics | - |
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| (noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: beautician |
| criticism | (noun) a serious examination and judgment of something | Synonyms: critique |
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| (noun) disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings | Synonyms: unfavorable judgment |
| (noun) a written evaluation of a work of literature | Synonyms: literary criticism |
| cubicity | (noun) the property of resembling a cube | - |
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| cyclicity | (noun) the quality of recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodicity |
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| cynicism | (noun) a cynical feeling of distrust | - |
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| cytogeneticist | (noun) a geneticist who specializes in the cellular components associated with heredity | - |
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| cytotoxicity | (noun) the degree to which something is toxic to living cells | - |
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| deficiency | (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: inadequacy, insufficiency |
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| (noun) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Synonyms: lack, want |
| deficit | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: shortage, shortfall |
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| (noun) an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period) | - |
| (noun) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing | - |
| (noun) a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning | - |
| deliciousness | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: delectability, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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| diagnostician | (noun) a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis | Synonyms: pathologist |
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| dialectician | (noun) a logician skilled in dialectic | - |
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| didacticism | (noun) communication that is suitable for or intended to be instructive | - |
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| dietician | (noun) a specialist in the study of diet and nutrition | Synonyms: dietitian |
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| domesticity | (noun) domestic activities or life | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being domestic or domesticated | - |
| domicile | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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| (noun) (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time | Synonyms: legal residence |
| domiciliation | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: diggings, digs, lodgings, pad |
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| doxorubicin | (noun) an antibiotic used as an anticancer drug | - |
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| duplicity | (noun) acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: double-dealing |
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| (noun) a fraudulent or duplicitous representation | Synonyms: fraudulence |
| eccentricity | (noun) strange and unconventional behavior | - |
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| (noun) a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path | - |
| (noun) (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis | - |
| ecclesiasticism | (noun) excessive adherence to ecclesiastical forms and activities | - |
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| (noun) religion appropriate to a church and to ecclesiastical principles and practices | - |
| eclecticism | (noun) making decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following some single doctrine or style | Synonyms: eclectic method |
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| eclecticist | (noun) someone who selects according to the eclectic method | Synonyms: eclectic |
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| econometrician | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrist |
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| ecumenicism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenism |
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| efficiency | (noun) skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort | - |
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| (noun) the ratio of the output to the input of any system | - |
| elasticity | (noun) the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed | Synonyms: snap |
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| electrician | (noun) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | Synonyms: lineman, linesman |
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| electricity | (noun) keen and shared excitement | - |
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| (noun) a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons | - |
| (noun) energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor | Synonyms: electrical energy, power |
| elicitation | (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: evocation, induction |
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| ellipticity | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: oblateness |
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| empiricism | (noun) the application of empirical methods in any art or science | - |
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| (noun) medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings | Synonyms: quackery |
| (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricist philosophy, sensationalism |
| empiricist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism | - |
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| endocervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous lining of the uterine cervix | - |
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| episodicity | (noun) The quality of being sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly. | - |
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| ergodicity | (noun) an attribute of stochastic systems; generally, a system that tends in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions | - |
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| eroticism | (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amativeness, amorousness, erotism, sexiness |
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| (noun) a state of anticipation of sexuality | Synonyms: erotism |
| esthetician | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty | Synonyms: aesthetician |
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| (noun) a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.) | Synonyms: aesthetician |
| ethician | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in ethics | Synonyms: ethicist |
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| ethicism | (noun) a doctrine that ethics and ethical ideas are valid and important | - |
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| ethicist | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in ethics | Synonyms: ethician |
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| ethnicity | (noun) an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties | - |
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