| accomplice | (noun) a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) | Synonyms: confederate |
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| acrylic | (noun) a synthetic fabric made from polyacrylonitrile | - |
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| (noun) used especially by artists | Synonyms: acrylic paint |
| (noun) a glassy thermoplastic; can be cast and molded or used in coatings and adhesives | Synonyms: acrylate resin, acrylic resin |
| (noun) polymerized from acrylonitrile | Synonyms: acrylic fiber |
| affliction | (noun) a cause of great suffering and distress | - |
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| (noun) a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health | - |
| (noun) a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity | - |
| alcoholic | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse |
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| allice | (noun) European shad | Synonyms: allice shad, allis, allis shad, Alosa alosa |
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| angelica | (noun) aromatic stems or leaves or roots of Angelica Archangelica | - |
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| (noun) candied stalks of the angelica plant | - |
| (noun) any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels | Synonyms: angelique |
| applicability | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: pertinence, pertinency |
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| applicant | (noun) a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission | Synonyms: applier |
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| application | (noun) the action of putting something into operation | - |
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| (noun) a diligent effort | Synonyms: diligence |
| (noun) the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose | Synonyms: practical application |
| (noun) the work of applying something | Synonyms: coating, covering |
| (noun) liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin | Synonyms: lotion |
| (noun) a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school | - |
| (noun) a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task | Synonyms: application program, applications programme |
| applicator | (noun) a device for applying a substance | Synonyms: applier |
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| ascolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is an ascomycete | - |
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| basidiolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is a basidiomycete | - |
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| basilica | (noun) a Roman building used for public administration | Synonyms: Roman basilica |
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| (noun) an early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica; or a Roman Catholic church or cathedral accorded certain privileges | - |
| bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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| bellicosity | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicoseness |
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| bootlicker | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, fawner, groveler, groveller, truckler |
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| borosilicate | (noun) a salt of boric and silicic acids | - |
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| brachycephalic | (noun) an adult with a short broad head | - |
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| bucolic | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: eclogue, idyl, idyll |
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| (noun) a country person | Synonyms: peasant, provincial |
| caliche | (noun) nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru | - |
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| (noun) crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions | Synonyms: hardpan |
| calico | (noun) coarse cloth with a bright print | - |
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| caliculus | (noun) a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) | Synonyms: calycle, calyculus |
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| canaliculus | (noun) a small canal or duct as in some bones and parts of plants | - |
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| catholicity | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: universality |
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| catholicon | (noun) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists | Synonyms: cure-all, nostrum, panacea |
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| chalice | (noun) a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup | Synonyms: goblet |
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| chelicera | (noun) either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing | - |
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| cliche | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, commonplace, platitude |
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| click | (noun) depression of a button on a computer mouse | Synonyms: mouse click |
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| (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: detent, dog, pawl |
| (noun) a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) | Synonyms: suction stop |
| (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: chink, clink |
| colic | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: gripes, griping, intestinal colic |
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| colicroot | (noun) any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic | Synonyms: colic root, crow corn, star grass, unicorn root |
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| complicatedness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complication, knottiness, tortuousness |
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| complication | (noun) the act or process of complicating | - |
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| (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complicatedness, knottiness, tortuousness |
| (noun) a development that complicates a situation | Synonyms: ramification |
| (noun) a situation or condition that is complex or confused | - |
| (noun) any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease | - |
| complicity | (noun) guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense | - |
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| conflict | (noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: battle, struggle |
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| (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, engagement, fight |
| (noun) an incompatibility of dates or events | - |
| (noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: difference, difference of opinion, dispute |
| (noun) opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings | - |
| (noun) opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot) | - |
| (noun) a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests | - |
| cowlick | (noun) a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat | - |
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| curlicue | (noun) a short twisting line | Synonyms: squiggle |
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| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
| cyclicity | (noun) the quality of recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodicity |
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| delicacy | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: daintiness, fineness |
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| (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: diplomacy, discreetness, finesse |
| (noun) lack of physical strength | Synonyms: fragility |
| (noun) slenderness | Synonyms: slightness |
| (noun) lightness in movement or manner | Synonyms: airiness |
| (noun) refined taste; tact | Synonyms: discretion |
| (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, goody, kickshaw, treat |
| delicatessen | (noun) a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: deli, food shop |
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| (noun) ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: delicatessen food |
| deliciousness | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: delectability, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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| derelict | (noun) a ship abandoned on the high seas | Synonyms: abandoned ship |
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| (noun) a person without a home, job, or property | - |
| dereliction | (noun) willful negligence | - |
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| (noun) a tendency to be negligent and uncaring | Synonyms: delinquency, willful neglect |
| dolichocephalic | (noun) an adult with a long narrow head | - |
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| dolichocephalism | (noun) the quality of being dolichocephalic | Synonyms: dolichocephaly |
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| dolichocephaly | (noun) the quality of being dolichocephalic | Synonyms: dolichocephalism |
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| duplicability | (noun) the quality of being reproducible | Synonyms: reproducibility |
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| duplicate | (noun) a copy that corresponds to an original exactly | Synonyms: duplication |
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| (noun) something additional of the same kind | Synonyms: extra |
| duplication | (noun) the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something | Synonyms: gemination |
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| (noun) a copy that corresponds to an original exactly | Synonyms: duplicate |
| duplicator | (noun) apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material | Synonyms: copier |
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| duplicity | (noun) acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: double-dealing |
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| (noun) a fraudulent or duplicitous representation | Synonyms: fraudulence |
| elicitation | (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: evocation, induction |
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| encyclical | (noun) a letter from the pope sent to all Roman Catholic bishops throughout the world | Synonyms: encyclical letter |
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| evangelicalism | (noun) stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation | - |
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| explicandum | (noun) (logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained | Synonyms: explanandum |
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| explication | (noun) a detailed explanation of the meaning of something | - |
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| (noun) the act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol or expression etc. | - |
| explicitness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being explicit | - |
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| felicitation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: congratulation |
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| (noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: congratulation |
| felicitousness | (noun) pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | Synonyms: felicity |
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| felicity | (noun) pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | Synonyms: felicitousness |
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| (noun) state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy | Synonyms: happiness |
| filicide | (noun) the murder of your own son or daughter | - |
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| (noun) a parent who murders his own son or daughter | - |
| flick | (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show |
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| (noun) a short stroke | - |
| (noun) a light sharp contact (usually with something flexible) | - |
| flicker | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flutter, waver |
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| (noun) North American woodpecker | - |
| (noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: glint, spark |
| flickertail | (noun) of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada | Synonyms: Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel |
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| fluosilicate | (noun) salt of fluosilicic acid | - |
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| follicle | (noun) any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity | - |
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| folliculitis | (noun) inflammation of a hair follicle | - |
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| frolic | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: caper, gambol, play, romp |
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| frolicsomeness | (noun) lively high-spirited playfulness | Synonyms: friskiness, sportiveness |
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| garlic | (noun) aromatic bulb used as seasoning | Synonyms: ail |
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| (noun) bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves | Synonyms: Allium sativum |
| helicon | (noun) a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician | Synonyms: bombardon |
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| helicopter | (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: chopper, eggbeater, whirlybird |
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| heterocyclic | (noun) a compound containing a heterocyclic ring | Synonyms: heterocycle, heterocyclic compound |
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| hydraulics | (noun) study of the mechanics of fluids | Synonyms: fluid mechanics |
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| illicitness | (noun) the quality of not conforming strictly to law | - |
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| implication | (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: import, significance |
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| (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: deduction, entailment |
| (noun) an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection | - |
| (noun) a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement) | - |
| (noun) a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false | Synonyms: conditional relation, logical implication |
| implicitness | (noun) inexplicitness as a consequence of being implied or indirect | - |
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| inapplicability | (noun) irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand | - |
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| indelicacy | (noun) an impolite act or expression | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being indelicate and offensive | - |
| inexplicitness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of not being explicit | - |
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| infelicity | (noun) inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | - |
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| infliction | (noun) the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo) | Synonyms: imposition |
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| (noun) an act causing pain or damage | - |
| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| italic | (noun) a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right | - |
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| (noun) a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right | - |
| klick | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometer, kilometre, km |
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| licence | (noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: license, permit |
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| (noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: license |
| (noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: license |
| license | (noun) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Synonyms: permission, permit |
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| (noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: licence, permit |
| (noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: licence |
| (noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: licence |
| licensee | (noun) someone to whom a license is granted | - |
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| licenser | (noun) an official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications) | - |
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| licentiate | (noun) holds a license (degree) from a (European) university | - |
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| licentiousness | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, looseness, profligacy |
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| (noun) the quality of being lewd and lascivious | Synonyms: wantonness |
| lichee | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: leechee, lichi, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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| (noun) Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium | Synonyms: litchi, Litchi chinensis, litchi tree, Nephelium litchi |
| lichen | (noun) any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc. | - |
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| (noun) any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks | - |
| lichgate | (noun) a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals | Synonyms: lychgate |
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| lichi | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: leechee, lichee, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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| licitness | (noun) the quality of strictly conforming to law | - |
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| lick | (noun) touching with the tongue | Synonyms: lap |
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| (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, poke, punch, slug |
| (noun) a salt deposit that animals regularly lick | Synonyms: salt lick |
| licking | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Synonyms: defeat |
| licorice | (noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant | Synonyms: liquorice |
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| (noun) deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots | Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, liquorice |
| maiolica | (noun) highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide | Synonyms: majolica |
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| majolica | (noun) highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide | Synonyms: maiolica |
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