| acquisition | (noun) the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something | - |
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| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, attainment, skill |
| (noun) the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge | Synonyms: learning |
| (noun) something acquired | - |
| acquisitiveness | (noun) strong desire to acquire and possess | - |
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| advertising | (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: merchandising, publicizing |
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| (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertizement, advertizing |
| anaclisis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) relationship marked by strong dependence on others; especially a libidinal attachment to e.g. a parental figure | - |
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| anaphrodisia | (noun) decline or absence of sexual desire | - |
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| aphrodisia | (noun) a desire for heterosexual intimacy | - |
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| aphrodisiac | (noun) a drug or other agent that stimulates sexual desire | - |
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| appetisingness | (noun) the property of stimulating the appetite | Synonyms: appetizingness |
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| artemisia | (noun) any of various composite shrubs or herbs of the genus Artemisia having aromatic green or greyish foliage | - |
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| booboisie | (noun) class consisting of all those who are considered boobs | - |
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| bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
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| braising | (noun) cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture | - |
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| cheiloschisis | (noun) a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip | Synonyms: cleft lip, harelip |
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| circumcision | (noun) the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males | - |
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| (noun) the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite | - |
| collision | (noun) a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals | - |
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| (noun) an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object | - |
| (noun) (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together | Synonyms: hit |
| concision | (noun) terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words | Synonyms: conciseness, pithiness, succinctness |
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| crisis | (noun) a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something | - |
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| (noun) an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty | - |
| cuisine | (noun) the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared | Synonyms: culinary art |
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| decision | (noun) the act of making up your mind about something | Synonyms: conclusion, determination |
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| (noun) the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: decisiveness |
| (noun) a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration | Synonyms: conclusion, determination |
| (noun) the outcome of a game or contest | - |
| (noun) (boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred | - |
| decisiveness | (noun) the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: decision |
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| (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: conclusiveness, finality |
| derision | (noun) the act of deriding or treating with contempt | Synonyms: ridicule |
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| (noun) contemptuous laughter | - |
| despising | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despisal |
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| devising | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: fashioning, making |
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| disillusion | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusionment |
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| disillusionment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusion |
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| disincentive | (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: deterrence |
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| disinclination | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance |
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| (noun) that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike | - |
| disinfectant | (noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobial, antimicrobic, germicide |
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| disinfection | (noun) treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms | - |
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| disinfector | (noun) an apparatus for applying disinfectants. | - |
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| disinfestation | (noun) the activity of getting rid of vermin | - |
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| disinflation | (noun) a reduction of prices intended to improve the balance of payments | - |
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| disinformation | (noun) misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.) | - |
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| disingenuousness | (noun) the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor | - |
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| disinheritance | (noun) the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit | - |
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| disintegration | (noun) total destruction | Synonyms: annihilation |
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| (noun) separation into component parts | Synonyms: dissolution |
| (noun) the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation | Synonyms: decay, radioactive decay |
| (noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: decomposition |
| (noun) a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system | - |
| disinterest | (noun) tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement | Synonyms: neutrality |
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| (noun) lack of interest | - |
| disinterestedness | (noun) freedom from bias or from selfish motives | - |
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| disinterment | (noun) the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | Synonyms: digging up, exhumation |
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| disinvestment | (noun) the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation | - |
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| disquisition | (noun) an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion | - |
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| divisibility | (noun) the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons | - |
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| division | (noun) the act or process of dividing | - |
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| (noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed | - |
| (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
| (noun) one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole | Synonyms: part, section |
| (noun) discord that splits a group | Synonyms: variance |
| (noun) an army unit large enough to sustain combat | - |
| (noun) a group of ships of similar type | Synonyms: naval division |
| (noun) a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings | Synonyms: air division |
| (noun) an administrative unit in government or business | - |
| (noun) (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum | - |
| (noun) (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category | - |
| (noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: class |
| elision | (noun) a deliberate act of omission | Synonyms: exception, exclusion |
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| (noun) omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next) | - |
| enterprisingness | (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, go-ahead, initiative |
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| envisioning | (noun) visual imagery | Synonyms: picturing |
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| episiotomy | (noun) surgical incision of the perineum to enlarge the vagina and so facilitate delivery during childbirth | - |
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| excision | (noun) surgical removal of a body part or tissue | Synonyms: ablation, cutting out, extirpation |
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| (noun) the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence | Synonyms: deracination, extirpation |
| (noun) the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society | Synonyms: excommunication |
| (noun) the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage | Synonyms: cut, deletion |
| exercising | (noun) the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit | Synonyms: exercise, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout |
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| exquisiteness | (noun) extreme beauty of a delicate sort | - |
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| imprecision | (noun) the quality of lacking precision | Synonyms: impreciseness |
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| incision | (noun) the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation) | Synonyms: section, surgical incision |
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| (noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, prick, scratch, slit |
| incisiveness | (noun) keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect | Synonyms: trenchancy |
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| indecision | (noun) the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: indecisiveness |
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| (noun) doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action | Synonyms: indecisiveness, irresolution |
| indecisiveness | (noun) the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: indecision |
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| (noun) doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action | Synonyms: indecision, irresolution |
| indivisibility | (noun) (arithmetic) The state of being impossible to divide by a specific integer without leaving a remainder. | - |
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| inquisition | (noun) a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals) | - |
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| inquisitiveness | (noun) The quality of being curious and interested. | - |
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| (noun) a state of active curiosity | Synonyms: curiousness |
| inquisitor | (noun) a questioner who is excessively harsh | Synonyms: interrogator |
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| invisibility | (noun) the quality of not being perceivable by the eye | Synonyms: invisibleness |
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| invisibleness | (noun) the quality of not being perceivable by the eye | Synonyms: invisibility |
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| isinglass | (noun) any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity | Synonyms: mica |
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| lisinopril | (noun) an ACE inhibiting drug (trade names Prinivil or Zestril) administered as an antihypertensive and after heart attacks | Synonyms: Prinivil, Zestril |
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| marbleising | (noun) a texture like that of marble | Synonyms: marbleisation, marbleization, marbleizing |
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| matrisib | (noun) one related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib |
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| merchandising | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, selling |
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| (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, publicizing |
| (noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandise |
| misinformation | (noun) information that is incorrect | - |
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| misinterpretation | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: mistaking, misunderstanding |
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| mutisia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Mutisia | - |
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| noisiness | (noun) the auditory effect characterized by loud and constant noise | Synonyms: racketiness |
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| pachisi | (noun) an ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board | Synonyms: parchesi, parchisi |
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| parchisi | (noun) an ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board | Synonyms: pachisi, parchesi |
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| patrisib | (noun) one related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib |
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| perquisite | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, prerogative, privilege |
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| (noun) an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right) | Synonyms: fringe benefit, perk |
| phthisis | (noun) involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body | Synonyms: consumption, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague |
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| pisiform | (noun) a small wrist bone that articulates only with the triquetral | Synonyms: os pisiforme, pisiform bone |
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| precision | (noun) the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance | Synonyms: preciseness |
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| prerequisite | (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: requirement |
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| prevision | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prescience |
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| (noun) a prophetic vision (as in a dream) | - |
| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prospicience |
| (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prediction |
| provision | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | Synonyms: supply, supplying |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: planning, preparation |
| (noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: proviso |
| (noun) a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms) | - |
| provisioner | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: sutler, victualer, victualler |
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| provisions | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, viands, victuals |
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| rachischisis | (noun) a not uncommon congenital defect in which a vertebra is malformed; unless several vertebrae are affected or there is myelomeningocele there are few symptoms; can be diagnosed by amniocentesis | Synonyms: schistorrhachis, spina bifida |
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| raisin | (noun) dried grape | - |
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| raising | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, rearing, upbringing |
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| (noun) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child | Synonyms: nurture, rearing |
| (noun) the event of something being raised upward | Synonyms: elevation, lift |
| requisite | (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessity, requirement |
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| requisiteness | (noun) the state of being absolutely required | - |
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| requisition | (noun) seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized | Synonyms: sequestration |
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| (noun) the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use | - |
| (noun) an official form on which a request is made | Synonyms: requisition form |
| retrovision | (noun) a vision of events in the distant past | - |
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| revising | (noun) editing that involves writing something again | Synonyms: rewriting |
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| revision | (noun) the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) | Synonyms: alteration |
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| (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: rescript, rewrite |
| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revisal, revise |
| revisionism | (noun) a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism | - |
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| (noun) any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx | - |
| revisionist | (noun) a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position | - |
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| risibility | (noun) a disposition to laugh | - |
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| rising | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, uprising |
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| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
| sensitising | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitization, sensitizing |
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| socialising | (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialization, socializing |
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| subdivision | (noun) the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided | - |
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| (noun) a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided | Synonyms: subsection |
| (noun) a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical) | Synonyms: section |
| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, branch |
| (noun) an area composed of subdivided lots | - |
| supervising | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, superintendence, supervision |
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| supervision | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, superintendence, supervising |
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