| abundance | (noun) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply | Synonyms: copiousness, teemingness |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million | - |
| (noun) (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present | - |
| agenda | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: docket, schedule |
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| (noun) a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting) | Synonyms: agendum, order of business |
| allamanda | (noun) a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes | - |
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| anaconda | (noun) large arboreal boa of tropical South America | Synonyms: Eunectes murinus |
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| andante | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow | - |
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| (noun) a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace) | - |
| appendage | (noun) a part that is joined to something larger | - |
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| (noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: extremity, member |
| (noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: outgrowth, process |
| ascendance | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendant | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendent, root |
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| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendent |
| attendance | (noun) the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) | Synonyms: attending |
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| (noun) the number of people that are present | - |
| (noun) the frequency with which a person is present | - |
| attendant | (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, co-occurrence, concomitant |
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| (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attender, tender |
| (noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendee, attender, meeter |
| bandage | (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: patch |
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| bandaging | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: binding, dressing |
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| bandana | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandanna |
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| bandanna | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandana |
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| bendability | (noun) the property of being easily bent without breaking | Synonyms: pliability |
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| bondage | (noun) sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners | - |
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| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
| (noun) the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power | - |
| boundary | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, limit |
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| (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, bounds |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, edge |
| calendar | (noun) a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc) | - |
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| (noun) a tabular array of the days (usually for one year) | - |
| (noun) a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year | - |
| caranda | (noun) South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax | Synonyms: caranda palm, caranday, Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, wax palm |
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| caranday | (noun) South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax | Synonyms: caranda, caranda palm, Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, wax palm |
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| codefendant | (noun) a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action | Synonyms: co-defendant |
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| commandant | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commander, commanding officer |
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| commendation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: citation |
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| (noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: approval |
| corrigenda | (noun) a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections | - |
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| defendant | (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused | Synonyms: suspect |
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| demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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| dependability | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependableness, reliability, reliableness |
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| dependableness | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependability, reliability, reliableness |
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| dependance | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependence, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation |
| dependant | (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependent |
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| descendant | (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
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| descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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| emendation | (noun) a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing | - |
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| endaemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: eudemonism |
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| endameba | (noun) any ameba of the genus Endamoeba | - |
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| endangerment | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk |
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| endarterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the inner lining of an artery that is clogged with atherosclerosis | - |
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| endarteritis | (noun) inflammation of the inner lining of an artery | - |
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| expandability | (noun) A physical property of gases, denoting that they expand to fill their containers. | - |
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| fandango | (noun) a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets | - |
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| fecundation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fertilisation, fertilization, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fertilisation, fertilization |
| fondant | (noun) candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste | - |
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| foundation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body | Synonyms: foundation garment |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, fundament, groundwork |
| (noun) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge | Synonyms: grounding |
| (noun) an institution supported by an endowment | - |
| (noun) the basis on which something is grounded | - |
| fundament | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, groundwork |
| fundamental | (noun) the lowest tone of a harmonic series | Synonyms: first harmonic, fundamental frequency |
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| (noun) any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business | - |
| fundamentalism | (noun) a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth | - |
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| (noun) the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc. | - |
| fundamentalist | (noun) a supporter of fundamentalism | - |
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| (noun) an adherent of fundamentalist principles | - |
| fundamentalness | (noun) The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance. | - |
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| fundamentals | (noun) principles from which other truths can be derived | Synonyms: basic principle, basics, bedrock, fundamental principle |
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| funday | (noun) Sunday as a day for relaxing and having fun | - |
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| gendarme | (noun) a French policeman | - |
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| gendarmerie | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmery |
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| gendarmery | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmerie |
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| grandad | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, granddad, granddaddy, grandfather, grandpa |
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| grandaunt | (noun) an aunt of your father or mother | Synonyms: great-aunt |
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| groenendael | (noun) black-coated sheepdog with a heavily plumed tail | - |
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| hacienda | (noun) the main house on a ranch or large estate | - |
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| (noun) a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries | - |
| hollandaise | (noun) eggs and butter with lemon juice | - |
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| indaba | (noun) a council at which indigenous peoples of southern Africa meet to discuss some important question | - |
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| indapamide | (noun) diuretic (trade name Lozal) used in the treatment of hypertension | Synonyms: Lozal |
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| inundation | (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, flood |
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| (noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, flood, torrent |
| jacaranda | (noun) an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black | Synonyms: Brazilian rosewood, caviuna wood, Dalbergia nigra |
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| landau | (noun) a four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately | - |
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| lindane | (noun) a white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide | - |
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| mandala | (noun) any of various geometric designs (usually circular) symbolizing the universe; used chiefly in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation | - |
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| mandamus | (noun) an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail | Synonyms: writ of mandamus |
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| mandarin | (noun) a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China | Synonyms: mandarin orange |
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| (noun) a high public official of imperial China | - |
| (noun) any high government official or bureaucrat | - |
| (noun) a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group | - |
| (noun) shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia | Synonyms: Citrus reticulata, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree |
| mandatary | (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatory |
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| mandate | (noun) the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory | - |
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| (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
| (noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandatory |
| mandator | (noun) an authority who issues a mandate | - |
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| mandatory | (noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandate |
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| (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatary |
| mebendazole | (noun) an anthelmintic used to treat hookworm and pinworm and roundworm infestations | - |
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| memoranda | (noun) a written proposal or reminder | Synonyms: memo, memorandum |
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| mendacity | (noun) the tendency to be untruthful | - |
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| mundaneness | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundanity, sophistication, worldliness |
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| (noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundanity, ordinariness |
| mundanity | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, sophistication, worldliness |
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| (noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundaneness, ordinariness |
| nonattendance | (noun) the failure to attend | - |
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| nonstandardness | (noun) The state or condition of not being standard. | - |
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| noonday | (noun) the middle of the day | Synonyms: high noon, midday, noon, noontide, twelve noon |
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| overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
| panda | (noun) large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet; in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae | Synonyms: Ailuropoda melanoleuca, coon bear, giant panda, panda bear |
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| (noun) reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore; in some classifications considered unrelated to the giant pandas | Synonyms: Ailurus fulgens, bear cat, cat bear, lesser panda, red panda |
| pandanus | (noun) any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves | Synonyms: screw pine |
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| (noun) fiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats) | - |
| pandar | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer |
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| pendant | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: chandelier, pendent |
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| (noun) an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) | Synonyms: pendent |
| poundage | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, impoundment, internment |
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| (noun) weight expressed in pounds | - |
| (noun) a fee charged for the recovery of impounded animals | - |
| (noun) a charge based on weight measured in pounds | - |
| poundal | (noun) a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound; equal to 0.1382 newtons | Synonyms: pdl |
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| prebendary | (noun) a canon who receives a prebend for serving the church | - |
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| propaganda | (noun) information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause | - |
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| qindarka | (noun) 100 qindarka equal 1 lek in Albania | Synonyms: qintar |
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| quandang | (noun) red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam | Synonyms: native peach, quandong, quantong |
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| (noun) Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed | Synonyms: Eucarya acuminata, Fusanus acuminatus, quandong, quandong tree |
| quandary | (noun) state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options | Synonyms: dilemma |
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| (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: plight, predicament |
| recommendation | (noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission | Synonyms: passport |
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| (noun) something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable | - |
| (noun) something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable | Synonyms: good word, testimonial |
| redundance | (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundancy |
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| redundancy | (noun) repetition of an act needlessly | - |
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| (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundance |
| (noun) (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails | - |
| (noun) repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission | - |
| rotunda | (noun) a large circular room | - |
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| (noun) a building having a circular plan and a dome | - |
| roundabout | (noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: circle, rotary, traffic circle |
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| (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, whirligig |
| sandal | (noun) a shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot | - |
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| sandalwood | (noun) close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork | - |
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| sandarac | (noun) a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes | Synonyms: sandarach |
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| (noun) large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes | Synonyms: Callitris quadrivalvis, sandarac tree, Tetraclinis articulata |
| (noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: citronwood |