| alabaster | (noun) a very light white | - |
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| (noun) a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving | - |
| (noun) a hard compact kind of calcite | Synonyms: Mexican onyx, onyx marble, oriental alabaster |
| assailability | (noun) vulnerability to forceful attack | - |
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| assimilability | (noun) Capability of being taken in and utilized as nourishment. | - |
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| astrolabe | (noun) an early form of sextant | - |
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| availability | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availableness, handiness |
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| availableness | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availability, handiness |
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| bilabial | (noun) a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/ | - |
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| billabong | (noun) a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high | - |
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| (noun) a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently | - |
| blabber | (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, informer, rat, squealer |
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| blabbermouth | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
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| calaba | (noun) West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice | Synonyms: Calophyllum calaba, Santa Maria tree |
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| calabash | (noun) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd | Synonyms: gourd |
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| (noun) a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd | Synonyms: calabash pipe |
| (noun) tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds | Synonyms: calabash tree, Crescentia cujete |
| (noun) round gourd of the calabash tree | - |
| (noun) Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits | Synonyms: bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria |
| calabazilla | (noun) perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit | Synonyms: buffalo gourd, Cucurbita foetidissima, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, wild pumpkin |
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| calabura | (noun) a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and fleshy edible fruit; a bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves | Synonyms: calabur tree, Jamaican cherry, Muntingia calabura, silk wood, silkwood |
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| calculability | (noun) The quality of being subject to or ascertainable by calculation. | - |
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| candelabra | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabrum |
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| candelabrum | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabra |
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| clabber | (noun) raw milk that has soured and thickened | - |
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| collaboration | (noun) act of working jointly | Synonyms: coaction |
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| (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaborationism, quislingism |
| collaborationism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, quislingism |
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| collaborationist | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborator, quisling |
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| collaborator | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: cooperator, pardner, partner |
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| (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborationist, quisling |
| (noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: confederate, henchman, partner in crime |
| decasyllable | (noun) a verse line having ten syllables | - |
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| delabialization | (noun) the pronouncing of a sound without lip rounding. | - |
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| dissyllable | (noun) a word having two syllables | Synonyms: disyllable |
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| disyllable | (noun) a word having two syllables | Synonyms: dissyllable |
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| elaborateness | (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaboration, intricacy, involution |
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| (noun) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated | Synonyms: ornateness |
| elaboration | (noun) developing in intricate and painstaking detail | Synonyms: working out |
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| (noun) addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail | Synonyms: amplification |
| (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, intricacy, involution |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: enlargement, expansion |
| (noun) the result of improving something | Synonyms: refinement |
| flab | (noun) loose or flaccid body fat | - |
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| flabbiness | (noun) a flabby softness | Synonyms: flaccidity, limpness |
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| glabella | (noun) a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges | Synonyms: mesophyron |
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| heptasyllable | (noun) a word or line of verse of seven syllables. | - |
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| hullabaloo | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval |
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| isosyllabism | (noun) (linguistics, poetry) the use of isosyllabic verse. | - |
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| jellaba | (noun) a loose cloak with a hood; worn in the Middle East and northern Africa | - |
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| lab | (noun) a workplace for the conduct of scientific research | Synonyms: laboratory, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratory |
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| labdanum | (noun) a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative | Synonyms: ladanum |
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| (noun) a dark brown to greenish oleoresin that has a fragrant odor and is used as a fixative in perfumes; obtained as a juice from certain rockroses | Synonyms: gum labdanum |
| label | (noun) an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object | - |
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| (noun) a brief description given for purposes of identification | - |
| (noun) trade name of a company that produces musical recordings | Synonyms: recording label |
| (noun) a radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction | - |
| labetalol | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade names Trandate and Normodyne) that blocks alpha and beta-adrenergic receptors of the sympathetic nervous system (leading to a decrease in blood pressure) | Synonyms: labetalol hydrochloride, Normodyne, Trandate |
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| labial | (noun) a consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips | Synonyms: labial consonant |
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| labiodental | (noun) a consonant whose articulation involves the lips and teeth | Synonyms: labiodental consonant |
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| labium | (noun) a liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva) | - |
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| labor | (noun) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | Synonyms: labour, toil |
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| (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labour, project, task, undertaking |
| (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labour, proletariat, working class |
| (noun) an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement | Synonyms: labor movement, labour, trade union movement |
| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
| laboratory | (noun) a workplace for the conduct of scientific research | Synonyms: lab, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratory |
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| (noun) a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation | Synonyms: testing ground |
| laborer | (noun) someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | Synonyms: jack, labourer, manual laborer |
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| laboriousness | (noun) the quality of requiring extended effort | Synonyms: operoseness, toilsomeness |
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| labour | (noun) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | Synonyms: labor, toil |
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| (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, project, task, undertaking |
| (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, proletariat, working class |
| (noun) an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement | Synonyms: labor, labor movement, trade union movement |
| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
| labourer | (noun) someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | Synonyms: jack, laborer, manual laborer |
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| labrocyte | (noun) a large connective tissue cell that contains histamine and heparin and serotonin which are released in allergic reactions or in response to injury or inflammation | Synonyms: mast cell, mastocyte |
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| labyrinth | (noun) complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost | Synonyms: maze |
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| (noun) a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium | Synonyms: inner ear, internal ear |
| labyrinthitis | (noun) inflammation of the inner ear; can cause vertigo and vomiting | Synonyms: otitis interna |
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| labyrinthodont | (noun) an amphibian of the superorder Labyrinthodontia | - |
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| lullaby | (noun) the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: cradlesong |
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| (noun) a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: berceuse, cradlesong |
| malabsorption | (noun) abnormal absorption of nutrients from the digestive tract | - |
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| manipulability | (noun) the quality of being controllable by skilled movements of the hands | - |
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| monosyllable | (noun) a word or utterance of one syllable | Synonyms: monosyllabic word |
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| octosyllable | (noun) a verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines | - |
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| polysyllable | (noun) a word of more than three syllables | Synonyms: polysyllabic word |
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| salability | (noun) the quality of being salable or marketable | Synonyms: salableness |
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| salableness | (noun) the quality of being salable or marketable | Synonyms: salability |
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| scalability | (noun) the quality of being scalable | - |
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| sillabub | (noun) sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor | Synonyms: syllabub |
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| (noun) spiced hot milk with rum or wine | Synonyms: syllabub |
| slab | (noun) block consisting of a thick piece of something | - |
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| spoilable | (noun) food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated | Synonyms: perishable |
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| syllabary | (noun) a writing system whose characters represent syllables | Synonyms: syllabic script |
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| syllabication | (noun) forming or dividing words into syllables | Synonyms: syllabification |
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| syllabicity | (noun) the pattern of syllable formation in a particular language | - |
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| syllabification | (noun) forming or dividing words into syllables | Synonyms: syllabication |
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| syllable | (noun) a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme | - |
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| syllabub | (noun) sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor | Synonyms: sillabub |
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| (noun) spiced hot milk with rum or wine | Synonyms: sillabub |
| syllabus | (noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, curriculum, program, programme |
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| trisyllable | (noun) a word having three syllables | - |
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| unavailability | (noun) the quality of not being available when needed | - |
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| wallaby | (noun) any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos; often brightly colored | Synonyms: brush kangaroo |
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