| abience | (noun) (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object | - |
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| abortifacient | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: aborticide, abortion-inducing drug |
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| achievability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: attainability, attainableness |
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| achievement | (noun) the action of accomplishing something | Synonyms: accomplishment |
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| achiever | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: succeeder, success, winner |
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| acquiescence | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: assent |
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| (noun) acceptance without protest | - |
| adience | (noun) (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object | - |
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| adieu | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| aerie | (noun) any habitation at a high altitude | Synonyms: aery, eyrie, eyry |
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| (noun) the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) | Synonyms: aery, eyrie, eyry |
| afterpiece | (noun) a brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play | - |
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| airfield | (noun) a place where planes take off and land | Synonyms: field, flying field, landing field |
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| alien | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: foreigner, noncitizen, outlander |
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| (noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | Synonyms: stranger, unknown |
| (noun) a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere | Synonyms: extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial being |
| alienage | (noun) the quality of being alien | Synonyms: alienism |
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| alienation | (noun) the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly | - |
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| (noun) (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another | - |
| (noun) the feeling of being alienated from other people | Synonyms: disaffection, estrangement |
| (noun) separation resulting from hostility | Synonyms: estrangement |
| alienator | (noun) an unpleasant person who causes friendly people to become indifferent or unfriendly or hostile | - |
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| alienee | (noun) someone to whom the title of property is transferred | Synonyms: grantee |
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| alienism | (noun) the quality of being alien | Synonyms: alienage |
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| (noun) an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness | - |
| alienist | (noun) a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness | - |
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| alienor | (noun) someone from whom the title of property is transferred | - |
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| allies | (noun) an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy | - |
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| altarpiece | (noun) a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table | Synonyms: reredos |
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| ambience | (noun) the atmosphere of an environment | Synonyms: ambiance |
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| (noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambiance, atmosphere |
| amenities | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: comforts, conveniences, creature comforts |
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| amplifier | (noun) electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it | - |
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| ancient | (noun) a person who lived in ancient times | - |
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| (noun) a very old person | Synonyms: antediluvian |
| ancientness | (noun) extreme oldness | Synonyms: antiquity |
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| ancients | (noun) people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe) | - |
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| anomie | (noun) lack of moral standards in a society | Synonyms: anomy |
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| (noun) personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation | Synonyms: anomy |
| antielectron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: positron |
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| antiemetic | (noun) a drug that prevents or alleviates nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: antiemetic drug |
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| antiepileptic | (noun) a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) | Synonyms: anticonvulsant, anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic drug |
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| antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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| antiestablishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentarianism |
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| anxiety | (noun) a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune | - |
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| (noun) (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic | Synonyms: anxiousness |
| aperient | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: cathartic, physic, purgative |
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| applier | (noun) a device for applying a substance | Synonyms: applicator |
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| (noun) a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission | Synonyms: applicant |
| archpriest | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate |
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| arietta | (noun) a short aria | Synonyms: short aria |
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| arteriectasia | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasis |
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| arteriectasis | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasia |
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| atelier | (noun) a studio especially for an artist or designer | Synonyms: artist's workroom |
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| audience | (noun) a conference (usually with someone important) | Synonyms: consultation, interview |
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| (noun) a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance | - |
| (noun) the part of the general public interested in a source of information, entertainment, or a product/service | - |
| (noun) an opportunity to state your case and be heard | Synonyms: hearing |
| auntie | (noun) the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle | Synonyms: aunt, aunty |
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| authorities | (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: government, regime |
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| backfield | (noun) the offensive football players who line up behind the linemen | - |
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| bacteriemia | (noun) transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood | Synonyms: bacteremia, bacteriaemia |
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| baddie | (noun) the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction | Synonyms: villain |
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| bandolier | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandoleer |
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| banshie | (noun) (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death | Synonyms: banshee |
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| barrier | (noun) a structure or object that impedes free movement | - |
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| (noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: roadblock |
| (noun) anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access | - |
| battlefield | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battleground, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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| beanie | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beany |
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| belieber | (noun) A fan of Justin Bieber | - |
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| belief | (noun) any cognitive content held as true | - |
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| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: feeling, impression, notion, opinion |
| believability | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: credibility, credibleness |
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| believer | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: worshiper, worshipper |
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| (noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: truster |
| believing | (noun) the cognitive process that leads to convictions | - |
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| bennie | (noun) a form of amphetamine | Synonyms: Benzedrine |
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| besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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| (noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
| besieging | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, military blockade, siege |
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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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| bier | (noun) a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial | - |
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| (noun) a coffin along with its stand | - |
| bioscience | (noun) any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms | Synonyms: life science |
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| birdie | (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, shuttle, shuttlecock |
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| (noun) (golf) a score of one stroke under par on a hole | - |
| blitzkrieg | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitz |
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| boccie | (noun) Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court | Synonyms: bocce, bocci |
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| bogie | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogey, bogy |
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| (noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogey, bogy |
| bolshie | (noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | Synonyms: Bolshevik, bolshy, Marxist, red |
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| bombardier | (noun) the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target | - |
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| (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery | - |
| bombie | (noun) an unexploded bomblet | - |
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| bonhomie | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, geniality |
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| bonxie | (noun) gull-like jaeger of northern seas | Synonyms: skua |
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| booboisie | (noun) class consisting of all those who are considered boobs | - |
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| boogie | (noun) an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano) | Synonyms: boogie-woogie |
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| bookie | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookmaker |
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| bootie | (noun) a slipper that is soft and wool (for babies) | Synonyms: bootee |
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| bosie | (noun) a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way | Synonyms: bosie ball, googly, wrong 'un |
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| boulevardier | (noun) a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris) | - |
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| bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
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| boutonniere | (noun) a flower that is worn in a buttonhole | - |
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| bowtie | (noun) a man's tie that ties in a bow | Synonyms: bow-tie, bow tie |
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| boyfriend | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, fellow, swain |
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| brasier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brazier |
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| brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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| brassie | (noun) (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated than a driver but less than a spoon | - |
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| brassiere | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, bra |
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| brazier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brasier |
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| brickfield | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickyard |
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| brief | (noun) a condensed written summary or abstract | - |
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| (noun) a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case | Synonyms: legal brief |
| briefcase | (noun) a case with a handle; for carrying papers or files or books | - |
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| briefing | (noun) detailed instructions, as for a military operation | - |
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| briefness | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: brevity, transience |
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| (noun) the temporal property of being very short | - |
| briefs | (noun) (used in the plural) short tight-fitting underpants (trade name Jockey shorts) | Synonyms: Jockey shorts |
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| brier | (noun) evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briar, Erica arborea, tree heath |
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| (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
| (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
| (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier patch, brierpatch |
| (noun) a thorny stem or twig | - |
| brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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| brierwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briarwood, brier-wood |
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| brigadier | (noun) a general officer ranking below a major general | Synonyms: brigadier general |
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| brownie | (noun) square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts | - |
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| (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: elf, gremlin, hob, imp, pixie, pixy |
| budgie | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| bullbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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