| ablative | (noun) the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb | Synonyms: ablative case |
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| abrasive | (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abradant, abrasive material |
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| abrasiveness | (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: harshness, scratchiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable | - |
| accusative | (noun) the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb | Synonyms: accusative case, objective case |
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| acquisitiveness | (noun) strong desire to acquire and possess | - |
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| active | (noun) a person who is a participating member of an organization | - |
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| (noun) the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb | Synonyms: active voice |
| (noun) chemical agent capable of activity | Synonyms: active agent |
| activeness | (noun) the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically | Synonyms: activity |
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| (noun) the state of being active | Synonyms: action, activity |
| activewear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: athletic wear, sportswear |
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| additive | (noun) something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine | - |
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| adhesive | (noun) a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together | Synonyms: adhesive agent, adhesive material |
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| adhesiveness | (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion, bond |
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| adjective | (noun) a word that expresses an attribute of something | - |
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| (noun) the word class that qualifies nouns | - |
| affirmative | (noun) a reply of affirmation | - |
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| affirmativeness | (noun) the agreeable quality of one who assents | - |
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| affricative | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate, affricate consonant |
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| aggressiveness | (noun) the quality of being bold and enterprising | - |
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| (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: belligerence, pugnacity |
| (noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggression |
| aliveness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: animateness, liveness |
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| (noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: animation, life, living |
| allusiveness | (noun) a quality characterized by indirect reference | - |
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| almsgiver | (noun) a person who gives alms | - |
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| alternative | (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
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| amativeness | (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
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| ambiversion | (noun) (psychology) a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion | - |
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| anniversary | (noun) the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: day of remembrance |
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| antihypertensive | (noun) a drug that reduces high blood pressure | Synonyms: antihypertensive drug |
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| antitussive | (noun) any medicine used to suppress or relieve coughing | - |
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| antivenene | (noun) an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the bite of a snake or insect or other animal | Synonyms: antivenin |
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| antivenin | (noun) an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the bite of a snake or insect or other animal | Synonyms: antivenene |
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| appellative | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, denomination, designation |
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| appreciativeness | (noun) warm friendly feelings of gratitude | Synonyms: gratefulness, thankfulness |
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| apprehensiveness | (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, dread |
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| archive | (noun) a depository containing historical records and documents | - |
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| archives | (noun) collection of records especially about an institution | - |
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| arrivederci | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| arriver | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, comer |
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| assertiveness | (noun) aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions | Synonyms: self-assertiveness |
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| attentiveness | (noun) the trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being observant and paying attention | - |
| (noun) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heed, paying attention, regard |
| attractiveness | (noun) sexual allure | - |
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| (noun) the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts | Synonyms: attraction |
| beehive | (noun) a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees | Synonyms: hive |
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| (noun) any workplace where people are very busy | - |
| (noun) a hairdo resembling a beehive | - |
| (noun) a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree | Synonyms: hive |
| biodiversity | (noun) the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole) | - |
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| cabdriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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| captive | (noun) an animal that is confined | - |
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| (noun) a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | Synonyms: prisoner |
| (noun) a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion | - |
| caregiver | (noun) a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult | - |
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| (noun) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability | Synonyms: health care provider, health professional, PCP, primary care provider |
| carminative | (noun) medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing | - |
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| chive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chives, cive, schnittlaugh |
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| chives | (noun) cylindrical leaves used fresh as a mild onion-flavored seasoning | - |
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| (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, cive, schnittlaugh |
| cive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, schnittlaugh |
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| civet | (noun) cat-like mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes | Synonyms: civet cat |
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| clivers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, cleavers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| cohesiveness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, coherency, cohesion |
| collective | (noun) members of a cooperative enterprise | - |
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| combativeness | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: militance, militancy |
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| commemorative | (noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
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| communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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| comparative | (noun) the comparative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: comparative degree |
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| competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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| comprehensive | (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comp, comprehensive examination |
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| comprehensiveness | (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, largeness |
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| (noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: fullness |
| compulsive | (noun) a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things | - |
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| compulsiveness | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsivity |
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| conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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| conclusiveness | (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: decisiveness, finality |
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| conjunctive | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
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| connective | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connector, connexion |
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| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, continuative |
| conservative | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservativist |
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| constructiveness | (noun) the quality of serving to build or improve | - |
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| consumptive | (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: lunger, tubercular |
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| contemplative | (noun) a person devoted to the contemplative life | - |
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| contemplativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: meditativeness, pensiveness |
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| continuative | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, connective |
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| contraceptive | (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive device, preventative, preventive, prophylactic device |
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| contriver | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: deviser, planner |
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| cooperative | (noun) a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners | Synonyms: co-op |
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| (noun) an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it | - |
| cooperativeness | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenability, amenableness |
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| copulative | (noun) an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence | Synonyms: copula, linking verb |
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| corrective | (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: restorative |
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| correlative | (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlate |
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| corrosive | (noun) a substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali) | - |
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| counteroffensive | (noun) a large scale offensive (more than a counterattack) undertaken by a defending force to seize the initiative from an attacking force | - |
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| creativeness | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativity |
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| curative | (noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: cure, remedy, therapeutic |
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| cursive | (noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive script, longhand, running hand |
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| dative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | Synonyms: dative case |
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| deceiver | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, slicker, trickster |
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| deceptiveness | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| 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 |
| declarative | (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood |
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| decorativeness | (noun) an appearance that serves to decorate and make something more attractive | - |
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| defectiveness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: faultiness |
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| defensive | (noun) an attitude of defensiveness | Synonyms: defensive attitude |
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| defensiveness | (noun) excessive sensitivity to criticism | - |
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| deliverable | (noun) something that can be provided as the product of development | - |
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| deliverance | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: delivery, rescue, saving |
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| deliverer | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: rescuer, savior, saviour |
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| (noun) a person who gives up or transfers money or goods | - |
| (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: delivery boy, deliveryman |
| delivery | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, rescue, saving |
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| (noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: legal transfer, livery |
| (noun) the act of delivering a child | Synonyms: obstetrical delivery |
| (noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: pitch |
| (noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: bringing |
| (noun) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally | Synonyms: manner of speaking, speech |
| (noun) the event of giving birth | - |
| deliveryman | (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: deliverer, delivery boy |
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| demonstrative | (noun) a pronoun that points out an intended referent | Synonyms: demonstrative pronoun |
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| demonstrativeness | (noun) tending to express your feelings freely | - |
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| denivelation | (noun) the difference in level (depth) between two parts of a cave system, usually the highest and lowest known point. | - |
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| depressive | (noun) someone suffering psychological depression | - |
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| derivative | (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derived function, differential, differential coefficient, first derivative |
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| (noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word | - |
| (noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security | Synonyms: derivative instrument |
| (noun) a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound | - |