| aboriginal | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aborigine, indigen, indigene, native |
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| aborigine | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, indigen, indigene, native |
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| advertorial | (noun) an advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report | - |
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| algorism | (noun) computation with Arabic figures | - |
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| (noun) the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration | - |
| algorithm | (noun) a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem | Synonyms: algorithmic program, algorithmic rule |
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| allegoricalness | (noun) The state or quality of being allegorical. | - |
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| allegoriser | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegorizer |
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| allegorizer | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegoriser |
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| amorist | (noun) one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love | - |
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| anchorite | (noun) one retired from society for religious reasons | Synonyms: hermit |
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| anteriority | (noun) the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head | - |
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| (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, precedence, precedency, priority |
| aorist | (noun) a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation | - |
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| aphorism | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: apophthegm, apothegm |
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| aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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| apriorism | (noun) belief in a priori principles or reasoning; specifically : the doctrine that knowledge rests upon principles that are self-evident to reason or are presupposed by experience in general. | - |
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| arboriculture | (noun) the tending of and caring for trees | Synonyms: tree farming |
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| arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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| arborist | (noun) a specialist in treating damaged trees | Synonyms: tree surgeon |
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| archesporium | (noun) primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops | Synonyms: archespore |
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| aspersorium | (noun) the basin or other vessel that holds holy water in Roman Catholic Churches | - |
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| (noun) a short-handled device with a globe containing a sponge; used for sprinkling holy water | Synonyms: aspergill |
| auditorium | (noun) the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits | - |
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| authorisation | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorization, empowerment |
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| (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authority, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authority, authorization, sanction |
| (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorization, mandate |
| authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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| authoritarian | (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
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| authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| authorities | (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: government, regime |
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| authority | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
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| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, sanction |
| (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
| (noun) an authoritative written work | - |
| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
| (noun) an expert whose views are taken as definitive | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | - |
| authorization | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, empowerment |
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| (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, dominance, potency, say-so |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, sanction |
| (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, mandate |
| authorizer | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authoriser |
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| behaviorism | (noun) an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | Synonyms: behavioristic psychology, behaviourism, behaviouristic psychology |
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| behaviorist | (noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviourist |
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| bichloride | (noun) a compound containing two chlorine atoms per molecule | Synonyms: dichloride |
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| bioterrorism | (noun) terrorism using the weapons of biological warfare | Synonyms: biological terrorism |
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| boorishness | (noun) inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor | Synonyms: uncouthness |
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| (noun) the manner of a rude or insensitive person | - |
| boring | (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: drilling, oil production |
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| (noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: drilling |
| boringness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: dreariness, insipidity, insipidness |
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| calorie | (noun) unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure | Synonyms: gram calorie, small calorie |
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| calorimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument that determines quantities of heat | - |
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| calorimetry | (noun) measurement of quantities of heat | - |
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| calorisator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorizator |
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| calorizator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorisator |
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| categorisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorization, classification, sorting |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorization, classification |
| categorization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, classification, sorting |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, classification |
| censoring | (noun) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances | Synonyms: censorship |
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| (noun) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy | Synonyms: censorship, security review |
| cephaloridine | (noun) a broad spectrum semisynthetic antibiotic produced by modifying cephalosporin | - |
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| cephalosporin | (noun) one of several broad spectrum antibiotic substances obtained from fungi and related to penicillin (trade names Mefoxin); addition of side chains has produced semisynthetic antibiotics with greater antibacterial activity | Synonyms: Mefoxin |
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| chloride | (noun) any compound containing a chlorine atom | - |
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| (noun) any salt of hydrochloric acid (containing the chloride ion) | - |
| chlorination | (noun) disinfection of water by the addition of small amounts of chlorine or a chlorine compound | - |
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| (noun) the addition or substitution of chlorine in organic compounds | - |
| chlorine | (noun) a common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water) | Synonyms: atomic number 17, Cl |
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| chlorinity | (noun) a measure of the quantity of chlorine or other halides in water (especially seawater) | - |
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| chlorite | (noun) a generally green or black mineral; it occurs as a constituent of many rocks typically in the form of a flat crystal | - |
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| chorine | (noun) a woman who dances in a chorus line | Synonyms: chorus girl, showgirl |
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| chorioallantois | (noun) the very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois | Synonyms: chorioallantoic membrane |
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| choriomeningitis | (noun) a cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges | - |
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| chorion | (noun) the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | - |
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| chorioretinitis | (noun) inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina | - |
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| chorister | (noun) a singer in a choir | - |
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| chorizo | (noun) a spicy Spanish pork sausage | - |
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| clamoring | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamour, clamouring, hue and cry |
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| clangoring | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangour, clank, clash, crash |
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| clitoridectomy | (noun) excision of the clitoris | Synonyms: female circumcision |
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| clitoris | (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: button, clit |
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| colorimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents | Synonyms: tintometer |
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| colorimetry | (noun) quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter | Synonyms: colorimetric analysis |
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| coloring | (noun) the act or process of changing the color of something | Synonyms: colouring |
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| (noun) a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect | Synonyms: color, colour, colouring |
| (noun) a digestible substance used to give color to food | Synonyms: colouring, food color, food coloring, food colour, food colouring |
| colorist | (noun) a painter able to achieve special effects with color | - |
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| contradictoriness | (noun) the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist | - |
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| coriander | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro |
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| (noun) dried coriander seeds used whole or ground | Synonyms: coriander seed |
| (noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
| corium | (noun) the deep vascular inner layer of the skin | Synonyms: derma, dermis |
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| counterterrorism | (noun) a strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism | - |
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| counterterrorist | (noun) someone who attempts to prevent terrorism | - |
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| crematorium | (noun) a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes | Synonyms: cremation chamber, crematory |
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| (noun) a mortuary where corpses are cremated | Synonyms: crematory |
| dichloride | (noun) a compound containing two chlorine atoms per molecule | Synonyms: bichloride |
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| dilatoriness | (noun) slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it | Synonyms: procrastination |
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| diorite | (noun) a granular crystalline intrusive rock | - |
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| disorientation | (noun) a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug) | Synonyms: freak out |
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| (noun) confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed; uncertainty as to direction | - |
| dysphoria | (noun) abnormal depression and discontent | - |
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| ecoterrorism | (noun) violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists | Synonyms: eco-warfare, ecological terrorism, ecological warfare |
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| editorial | (noun) an article giving opinions or perspectives | Synonyms: column, newspaper column |
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| editorialist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: columnist |
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| emporium | (noun) a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain | Synonyms: department store |
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| emunctorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: purificator, purificatorium |
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| equatorial | (noun) a telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth's axis and the other one at right angles to it | - |
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| euphoria | (noun) a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation | Synonyms: euphory |
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| euphoriant | (noun) a psychoactive drug that tends to produce elation and euphoria | - |
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| evaporite | (noun) the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater | - |
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| excoriation | (noun) severe censure | - |
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| (noun) an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off | Synonyms: abrasion, scrape, scratch |
| extemporisation | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporization, improvisation |
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| extemporization | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, improvisation |
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| exteriorisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorization, externalisation, externalization |
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| exteriorization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, externalisation, externalization |
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| factorial | (noun) the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer | - |
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| factoring | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factorisation, factorization |
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| factorisation | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorization |
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| factorization | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorisation |
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| favorite | (noun) something regarded with special favor or liking | Synonyms: favourite |
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| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favourite, pet |
| (noun) a competitor thought likely to win | Synonyms: favourite, front-runner |
| favoritism | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: discrimination, favouritism |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor some person or group | Synonyms: favouritism |
| femoris | (noun) the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | Synonyms: femur, thighbone |
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| flavoring | (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavorer, flavourer, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning |
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| flooring | (noun) the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure) | Synonyms: floor |
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| (noun) building material used in laying floors | - |