| angler | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| (noun) a fisherman who uses a hook and line | Synonyms: troller |
| (noun) a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage | - |
| anglerfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| anglewing | (noun) nymphalid butterfly having angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings | - |
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| angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| angling | (noun) fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole) | - |
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| anglophil | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophile |
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| anglophile | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophil |
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| anglophobe | (noun) a person who hates England and everything English | - |
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| angostura | (noun) the bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters | Synonyms: angostura bark |
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| angrecum | (noun) any of various spectacular orchids of the genus Angraecum having dark green leathery leaves and usually nocturnally scented white or ivory flowers | - |
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| angriness | (noun) the state of being angry | Synonyms: anger |
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| angst | (noun) an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom | - |
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| angstrom | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: A, angstrom unit |
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| anguish | (noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (noun) extreme distress of body or mind | - |
| angularity | (noun) the property possessed by a shape that has angles | - |
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| (noun) a shape having one or more sharp angles | Synonyms: angular shape |
| angulation | (noun) the act of making angulate (having corners) | - |
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| (noun) the precise measurement of angles | - |
| angwantibo | (noun) a kind of yellow or golden lemur (Arctocebus calabarensis) | Synonyms: Arctocebus calabarensis, golden potto |
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| anhedonia | (noun) an inability to experience pleasure | - |
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| anhidrosis | (noun) failure of the sweat glands | Synonyms: anhydrosis |
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| anhinga | (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: darter, snakebird |
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| anhydride | (noun) a compound formed from one or more other compounds in a reaction resulting in removal of water | - |
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| anhydrosis | (noun) failure of the sweat glands | Synonyms: anhidrosis |
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| ani | (noun) black tropical American cuckoo | - |
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| anil | (noun) shrub of West Indies and South America that is a source of indigo dye | Synonyms: Indigofera anil, Indigofera suffruticosa |
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| (noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: indigo, indigotin |
| aniline | (noun) oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines | Synonyms: aminobenzine, aniline oil, phenylamine |
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| anima | (noun) (Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious | - |
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| animadversion | (noun) harsh criticism or disapproval | Synonyms: censure |
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| animal | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna |
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| animalcule | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalculum |
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| animalculum | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalcule |
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| animalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalization, brutalisation, brutalization |
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| animalism | (noun) preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites | Synonyms: physicality |
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| (noun) the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature | - |
| animality | (noun) the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect | Synonyms: animal nature |
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| animalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, brutalisation, brutalization |
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| (noun) a depiction in the form of an animal | - |
| animateness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: aliveness, liveness |
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| animation | (noun) the making of animated cartoons | - |
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| (noun) general activity and motion | Synonyms: liveliness |
| (noun) the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something | Synonyms: invigoration, vivification |
| (noun) the property of being able to survive and grow | Synonyms: vitality |
| (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification |
| (noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: aliveness, life, living |
| animatism | (noun) the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones | - |
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| animator | (noun) the technician who produces animated cartoons | - |
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| (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: energiser, energizer, vitaliser, vitalizer |
| animatronics | (noun) the construction of robots to look like animals (developed for Disneyland) | - |
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| anime | (noun) a style of animation developed in Japan, characterized by stylized colorful art and often adult themes | - |
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| (noun) a hard copal derived from an African tree | Synonyms: Zanzibar copal |
| (noun) any of various resins or oleoresins | Synonyms: gum anime |
| animism | (noun) the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls | - |
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| animist | (noun) one who accepts the doctrine of animism | - |
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| animosity | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animus, bad blood |
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| animus | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animosity, bad blood |
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| anion | (noun) a negatively charged ion | - |
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| anionic | (noun) a class of synthetic detergents in which the molecules do not ionize in aqueous solutions | Synonyms: anionic detergent, non-ionic detergent |
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| anise | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise seed, aniseed |
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| (noun) native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery | Synonyms: anise plant, Pimpinella anisum |
| aniseed | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise, anise seed |
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| aniseikonia | (noun) visual defect in which the shape and size of an ocular image differ in the two eyes | - |
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| anisette | (noun) liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed | Synonyms: anisette de Bordeaux |
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| anisogamete | (noun) either of a pair of unlike gametes especially those unlike in size | - |
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| anisogamy | (noun) (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size) | - |
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| anisometropia | (noun) difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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| anisotropy | (noun) the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions | - |
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| anjou | (noun) a pear with firm flesh and a green skin | - |
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| ankle | (noun) a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus | Synonyms: ankle joint, articulatio talocruralis, mortise joint |
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| anklebone | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: astragal, astragalus, talus |
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| anklet | (noun) an ornament worn around the ankle | Synonyms: ankle bracelet |
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| (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklets, bobbysock, bobbysocks |
| (noun) a shoe for a child or woman that has a strap around the ankle | - |
| anklets | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, bobbysock, bobbysocks |
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| ankus | (noun) an elephant goad with a sharp spike and a hook | - |
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| ankyloglossia | (noun) a congenital anomaly in which the mucous membrane under the tongue is too short limiting the mobility of the tongue | Synonyms: tongue tie |
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| ankylosaur | (noun) having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's | Synonyms: ankylosaurus |
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| ankylosaurus | (noun) having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's | Synonyms: ankylosaur |
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| ankylosis | (noun) abnormal adhesion and rigidity of the bones of a joint | Synonyms: anchylosis |
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| anlage | (noun) an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development | Synonyms: primordium |
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| anna | (noun) a former copper coin of Pakistan and India | - |
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| annalism | (noun) The writing of annals. | - |
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| annalist | (noun) a historian who writes annals | - |
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| annals | (noun) a chronological account of events in successive years | Synonyms: chronological record |
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| (noun) reports of the work of a society or learned body etc | - |
| annealing | (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempering |
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| annelid | (noun) worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally | Synonyms: annelid worm, segmented worm |
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| annex | (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annexe, extension, wing |
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| annexa | (noun) accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages to an organ (especially of the embryo) | Synonyms: adnexa |
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| annexation | (noun) the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation | - |
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| (noun) incorporation by joining or uniting | Synonyms: appropriation |
| annexe | (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, extension, wing |
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| annihilation | (noun) destruction by annihilating something | Synonyms: obliteration |
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| (noun) total destruction | Synonyms: disintegration |
| annihilator | (noun) a total destroyer | - |
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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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| annon | (noun) sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds | Synonyms: sugar apple, sweetsop |
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| annotating | (noun) the act of adding notes | Synonyms: annotation |
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| annotation | (noun) the act of adding notes | Synonyms: annotating |
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| (noun) a comment or instruction (usually added) | Synonyms: notation, note |
| annotator | (noun) a commentator who writes notes to a text | - |
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| announcement | (noun) a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen | Synonyms: promulgation |
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| (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: annunciation, declaration, proclamation |
| announcer | (noun) reads news, commercials on radio or television | - |
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| (noun) someone who proclaims a message publicly | - |
| annoyance | (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoying, irritation, vexation |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: bother, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| (noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: chafe, vexation |
| (noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: aggravator |
| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: botheration, irritation, vexation |
| annoyer | (noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: tease, teaser, vexer |
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| annoying | (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, irritation, vexation |
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| annual | (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: yearbook, yearly |
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| (noun) (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year | - |
| annualry | (noun) the third finger (especially of the left hand) | Synonyms: ring finger |
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| annuitant | (noun) the recipient of an annuity | - |
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| annuity | (noun) income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments | Synonyms: rente |
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| annulet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: bandelet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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| (noun) (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a small ring | - |
| annulment | (noun) (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) | Synonyms: invalidation |
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| (noun) the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation | Synonyms: abrogation, repeal |
| (noun) the state of being cancelled or annulled | Synonyms: revocation |
| annulus | (noun) (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar | Synonyms: skirt |
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| (noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, doughnut, halo, ring |
| annum | (noun) (Latin) year | - |
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| annunciation | (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, declaration, proclamation |
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| annunciator | (noun) an indicator that announces which electrical circuit has been active (as on a telephone switchboard) | - |
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| anoa | (noun) small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns | Synonyms: Anoa depressicornis, dwarf buffalo |
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| anode | (noun) a positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device | - |
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| (noun) the negatively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current | - |
| anodyne | (noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: analgesic, pain pill, painkiller |
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