| abolition | (noun) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | Synonyms: abolishment |
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| abolitionism | (noun) the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery | - |
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| abolitionist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: emancipationist |
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| 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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| addition | (noun) the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers | Synonyms: plus, summation |
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| (noun) the act of adding one thing to another | - |
| (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, improver |
| (noun) a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area | - |
| (noun) something added to what you already have | Synonyms: accession |
| (noun) a quantity that is added | Synonyms: gain, increase |
| additive | (noun) something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine | - |
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| adenitis | (noun) inflammation of a gland or lymph node | - |
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| admonition | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonishment, monition |
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| (noun) cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness) | Synonyms: monition, warning, word of advice |
| adventitia | (noun) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue | Synonyms: tunic, tunica |
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| alveolitis | (noun) inflammation of the alveoli in the lungs caused by inhaling dust; with repeated exposure the condition may become chronic | - |
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| (noun) inflammation in the socket of a tooth; sometimes occurs after a tooth is extracted and a blood clot fails to form | Synonyms: dry socket |
| ambition | (noun) a strong drive for success | Synonyms: ambitiousness |
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| (noun) a cherished desire | Synonyms: aspiration, dream |
| ambitiousness | (noun) a strong drive for success | Synonyms: ambition |
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| amenities | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: comforts, conveniences, creature comforts |
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| ammunition | (noun) projectiles to be fired from a gun | Synonyms: ammo |
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| (noun) information that can be used to attack or defend a claim or argument or viewpoint | - |
| (noun) any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction | - |
| angiitis | (noun) inflammation of a blood vessel or lymph duct | - |
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| antipruritic | (noun) a substance that relieves or prevents itching | - |
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| antiredeposition | (noun) the process of preventing redeposition | - |
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| antisemitism | (noun) the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people | Synonyms: anti-Semitism |
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| antisyphilitic | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that is effective against syphilis | - |
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| aortitis | (noun) inflammation of the aorta | - |
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| aperitif | (noun) alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer | - |
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| apoliticism | (noun) Apathy and/or antipathy towards all political affiliations. | - |
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| apparition | (noun) an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly | - |
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| (noun) something existing in perception only | Synonyms: fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow |
| (noun) the appearance of a ghostlike figure | - |
| (noun) a ghostly appearing figure | Synonyms: fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre |
| appendicitis | (noun) inflammation of the vermiform appendix | - |
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| apposition | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | Synonyms: collocation, juxtaposition |
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| (noun) (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material | - |
| (noun) a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows | - |
| arteritis | (noun) inflammation of an artery | - |
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| arthritic | (noun) a person afflicted with arthritis | - |
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| arthritis | (noun) inflammation of a joint or joints | - |
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| asynclitism | (noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| attrition | (noun) the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction | - |
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| (noun) a wearing down to weaken or destroy | - |
| (noun) sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation | Synonyms: contriteness, contrition |
| (noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: abrasion, detrition, grinding |
| (noun) erosion by friction | Synonyms: abrasion, corrasion, detrition |
| audition | (noun) a test of the suitability of a performer | Synonyms: tryout |
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| (noun) the ability to hear; the auditory faculty | Synonyms: auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing |
| authorities | (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: government, regime |
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| avaritia | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, greed, rapacity |
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| baiting | (noun) harassment especially of a tethered animal | - |
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| balanitis | (noun) inflammation of the head of the penis | - |
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| balanoposthitis | (noun) inflammation of both the head of the penis and the foreskin | - |
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| blepharitis | (noun) inflammation of the eyelids characterized by redness and swelling and dried crusts | - |
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| bronchiolitis | (noun) inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchioles | - |
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| bronchitis | (noun) inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchial tubes | - |
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| bruitism | (noun) The use in music of sounds taken from an extra-musical source or context. The term is used most often of percussion or of electronic music that suggests the sounds of machinery. | - |
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| bursitis | (noun) inflammation of a bursa; frequently in the shoulder | - |
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| caimitillo | (noun) tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit | Synonyms: Chrysophyllum oliviforme, damson plum, satin leaf, satinleaf |
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| caitiff | (noun) a cowardly and despicable person | - |
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| carditis | (noun) inflammation of the heart | - |
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| cellulitis | (noun) an inflammation of body tissue (especially that below the skin) characterized by fever and swelling and redness and pain | - |
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| cephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use) | Synonyms: encephalitis, phrenitis |
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| cerebromeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: encephalomeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
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| cervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the uterine cervix | - |
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| cheilitis | (noun) inflammation and cracking of the skin of the lips | - |
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| chitin | (noun) a tough semitransparent horny substance; the principal component of the exoskeletons of arthropods and the cell walls of certain fungi | - |
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| cholangitis | (noun) inflammation of the bile ducts | - |
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| cholecystitis | (noun) inflammation of the gall bladder | - |
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| chorditis | (noun) inflammation of the vocal cords | - |
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| (noun) inflammation of the spermatic cord or vocal cords or vocal folds | - |
| choriomeningitis | (noun) a cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges | - |
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| chorioretinitis | (noun) inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina | - |
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| citizen | (noun) a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community | - |
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| citizenry | (noun) the body of citizens of a state or country | Synonyms: people |
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| citizenship | (noun) conduct as a citizen | - |
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| (noun) the status of a citizen with rights and duties | - |
| clitic | (noun) a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted. | - |
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| coalition | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, concretion, conglutination |
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| (noun) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: alignment, alinement, alliance |
| (noun) the state of being combined into one body | Synonyms: fusion |
| cognition | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: knowledge, noesis |
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| coition | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coitus, copulation, intercourse, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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| colitis | (noun) inflammation of the colon | Synonyms: inflammatory bowel disease |
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| colpitis | (noun) inflammation of the vagina | - |
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| colpocystitis | (noun) inflammation of the vagina and bladder | - |
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| competition | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: contention, rivalry |
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| (noun) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants | Synonyms: contest |
| (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competitor, contender, rival |
| (noun) a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers | - |
| competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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| composition | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, penning, writing |
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| (noun) musical creation | Synonyms: composing |
| (noun) something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole | - |
| (noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: constitution, make-up, makeup, physical composition |
| (noun) the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole | Synonyms: composing |
| (noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: paper, report, theme |
| (noun) a musical work that has been created | Synonyms: musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music |
| (noun) art and technique of printing with movable type | Synonyms: typography |
| (noun) a mixture of ingredients | - |
| condition | (noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: circumstance, consideration |
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| (noun) the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition | Synonyms: experimental condition |
| (noun) an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else | Synonyms: precondition, stipulation |
| (noun) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement | Synonyms: strings, term |
| (noun) a state at a particular time | Synonyms: status |
| (noun) a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing | - |
| (noun) the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape') | Synonyms: shape |
| (noun) an illness, disease, or other medical problem | - |
| conditionality | (noun) the state of being conditional | - |
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| conditioner | (noun) exercise that conditions the body | - |
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| (noun) a substance used in washing (clothing or hair) to make things softer | - |
| (noun) a trainer of athletes | - |
| conditioning | (noun) a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment | - |
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| conditions | (noun) the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation | Synonyms: atmospheric condition, weather, weather condition |
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| (noun) the set of circumstances that affect someone's welfare | - |
| (noun) the prevailing context that influences the performance or the outcome of a process | - |
| conjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: pinkeye |
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| contrition | (noun) sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation | Synonyms: attrition, contriteness |
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| corditis | (noun) inflammation of the spermatic cord, accompanied by pain in the testis, generally caused by an infection originating in the urethra or by a tumor, hydrocele, or varicocele | - |
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| costochondritis | (noun) inflammation at the junction of a rib and its cartilage | - |
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| critic | (noun) a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art | - |
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| (noun) anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something | - |
| (noun) someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments | - |
| criticality | (noun) a state of critical urgency | Synonyms: criticalness, cruciality |
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| (noun) a critical state; especially the point at which a nuclear reaction is self-sustaining | - |
| criticalness | (noun) a state of critical urgency | Synonyms: criticality, cruciality |
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| 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 |
| critique | (noun) a serious examination and judgment of something | Synonyms: criticism |
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| (noun) an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) | Synonyms: critical review, review, review article |
| cubitiere | (noun) body armor that protects the elbow | - |
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| cystitis | (noun) inflammation of the urinary bladder and ureters | - |
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| dacryocystitis | (noun) inflammation of the lacrimal sac causing obstruction of the tube draining tears into the nose | - |
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| decomposition | (noun) the analysis of a vector field | Synonyms: vector decomposition |
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| (noun) the organic phenomenon of rotting | Synonyms: decay |
| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, putrefaction, rot, rotting |
| (noun) (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance | Synonyms: breakdown, chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition reaction |
| (noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: disintegration |
| definition | (noun) clarity of outline | - |
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| (noun) a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol | - |
| deglutition | (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: drink, swallow |
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| demolition | (noun) the act of demolishing | - |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: destruction, wipeout |
| dentition | (noun) the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal | Synonyms: teeth |
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| (noun) the eruption through the gums of baby teeth | Synonyms: odontiasis, teething |
| deposition | (noun) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office | Synonyms: dethronement |
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| (noun) the act of putting something somewhere | Synonyms: deposit |
| (noun) (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office | - |
| (noun) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something | Synonyms: deposit |
| dermatitis | (noun) inflammation of the skin; skin becomes itchy and may develop blisters | - |
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| dermatomyositis | (noun) myositis characterized by weakness of limb and neck muscles and much muscle pain and swelling accompanied by skin rash affecting cheeks and eyelids and neck and chest and limbs; progression and severity vary among individuals | - |
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| desensitisation | (noun) the process of reducing sensitivity | Synonyms: desensitization |
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| desensitization | (noun) the process of reducing sensitivity | Synonyms: desensitisation |
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| detrition | (noun) effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure | Synonyms: friction, rubbing |
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| (noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, grinding |
| (noun) erosion by friction | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, corrasion |
| diacritic | (noun) a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation | Synonyms: diacritical mark |
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| dietitian | (noun) a specialist in the study of diet and nutrition | Synonyms: dietician |
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| digitigrade | (noun) an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses | Synonyms: digitigrade mammal |
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