| algorism | (noun) computation with Arabic figures | - |
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| (noun) the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration | - |
| allegoriser | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegorizer |
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| amorist | (noun) one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love | - |
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| 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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| arborist | (noun) a specialist in treating damaged trees | Synonyms: tree surgeon |
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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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| 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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| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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 |
| chorister | (noun) a singer in a choir | - |
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| clitoris | (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: button, clit |
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| colorist | (noun) a painter able to achieve special effects with color | - |
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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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| 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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| extemporisation | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporization, improvisation |
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| exteriorisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorization, externalisation, externalization |
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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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| 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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| florist | (noun) a shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold | Synonyms: florist shop, flower store |
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| (noun) someone who grows and deals in flowers | - |
| folklorism | (noun) Invention or adaptation of folklore; including any use of a tradition outside the cultural context in which it was created. | - |
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| glamorisation | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorization, glamourisation, glamourization |
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| humorist | (noun) someone who acts, speaks or writes in an amusing way | Synonyms: humourist |
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| hypocorism | (noun) a name of endearment (especially one using a diminutive suffix) | Synonyms: pet name |
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| meliorism | (noun) the belief that the world can be made better by human effort | - |
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| meliorist | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: crusader, reformer, reformist, social reformer |
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| memorisation | (noun) learning so as to be able to remember verbatim | Synonyms: committal to memory, memorization |
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| memoriser | (noun) a person who learns by rote | Synonyms: memorizer |
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| motorisation | (noun) the act of motorizing (equipping with motors or with motor vehicles) | Synonyms: motorization |
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| motorist | (noun) someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile | Synonyms: automobilist |
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| narcoterrorism | (noun) the financing of terrorist activities by participation in the drug trade | - |
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| neobehaviorism | (noun) a school of psychology based on the general principles of behaviorism but broader and more flexible in concept. It stresses experimental research and laboratory analyses in the study of overt behavior and in various subjective phenomena that cannot be directly observed and measured, such as fantasies, love, stress, empathy, trust, and personality. | - |
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| orison | (noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: petition, prayer |
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| temporiser | (noun) someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time | Synonyms: temporizer |
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| tenorist | (noun) a musician who plays the tenor saxophone | Synonyms: tenor saxophonist |
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| terrorisation | (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: frightening, terrorization |
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| (noun) an act of terrorism | Synonyms: terrorization |
| terrorism | (noun) the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear | Synonyms: act of terrorism, terrorist act |
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| terrorist | (noun) a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities | - |
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| theorisation | (noun) the production or use of theories | Synonyms: theorization |
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| theoriser | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: idealogue, theoretician, theorist, theorizer |
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| theorist | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: idealogue, theoretician, theoriser, theorizer |
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| theoterrorism | (noun) terrorism for a religious purpose | - |
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| tsoris | (noun) (Yiddish) trouble and suffering | - |
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| vaporisation | (noun) annihilation by vaporizing something | Synonyms: vaporization |
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| (noun) the process of becoming a vapor | Synonyms: evaporation, vapor, vaporization, vapour |
| vaporiser | (noun) a device that puts out a substance in the form of a vapor (especially for medicinal inhalation) | Synonyms: vaporizer |
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| vigorish | (noun) an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest | Synonyms: usury |
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| (noun) a percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster | Synonyms: rake-off |
| watercolorist | (noun) a painter who paints with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolourist |
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