| aberrant | (noun) one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group | - |
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| adulterant | (noun) any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | Synonyms: adulterator |
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| amaranth | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food | - |
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| (noun) seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America | - |
| antiperspirant | (noun) an astringent substance applied to the skin to reduce perspiration | - |
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| aspirant | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirer, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee |
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| astrantia | (noun) any plant of the genus Astrantia | Synonyms: masterwort |
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| brant | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant goose, brent, brent goose |
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| cauterant | (noun) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | Synonyms: cautery |
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| celebrant | (noun) an officiating priest celebrating the Eucharist | - |
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| (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrater, celebrator |
| cormorant | (noun) large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish | Synonyms: Phalacrocorax carbo |
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| courante | (noun) a court dance of the 16th century; consisted of short advances and retreats | - |
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| currant | (noun) any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams | - |
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| (noun) small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking | - |
| (noun) any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants | Synonyms: currant bush |
| denaturant | (noun) any substance that serves as a denaturing agent | - |
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| deodorant | (noun) a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors | Synonyms: deodourant |
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| deodourant | (noun) a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors | Synonyms: deodorant |
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| emigrant | (noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another | Synonyms: emigre, emigree, outgoer |
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| entrant | (noun) a commodity that enters competition with established merchandise | - |
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| (noun) one who enters a competition | - |
| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| (noun) someone who enters | - |
| expectorant | (noun) a medicine promoting expectoration | Synonyms: expectorator |
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| grant | (noun) the act of providing a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidisation, subsidization |
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| (noun) a right or privilege that has been granted | - |
| (noun) a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business | Synonyms: concession |
| (noun) any monetary aid | - |
| (noun) (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance | Synonyms: assignment |
| grantee | (noun) a recipient of a grant | - |
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| (noun) someone to whom the title of property is transferred | Synonyms: alienee |
| granter | (noun) a person who grants or gives something | - |
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| grantor | (noun) a person who makes a grant in legal form | - |
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| guarantee | (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: warrant, warrantee, warranty |
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| (noun) an unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true | - |
| (noun) a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults | Synonyms: guaranty |
| guarantor | (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: surety, warranter, warrantor |
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| guaranty | (noun) a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults | Synonyms: guarantee |
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| hydrant | (noun) a discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks | - |
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| (noun) a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask | Synonyms: tap, water faucet, water tap |
| ignorantness | (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: nescience, unknowing, unknowingness |
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| immigrant | (noun) a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there | - |
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| itinerant | (noun) a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment | Synonyms: gipsy, gypsy |
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| maranta | (noun) any of numerous herbs of the genus Maranta having tuberous starchy roots and large sheathing leaves | - |
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| migrant | (noun) traveler who moves from one region or country to another | Synonyms: migrator |
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| ministrant | (noun) someone who serves as a minister | - |
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| nitrofurantoin | (noun) derivative of nitrofuran used as an antibacterial medicine (trade name Macrodantin) effective against a broad range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria; used to treat infections of the urinary tract | Synonyms: Macrodantin |
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| obscurantism | (noun) a deliberate act intended to make something obscure | - |
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| (noun) a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge | - |
| obscurantist | (noun) a person who is deliberately vague | - |
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| plectranthus | (noun) any of various ornamental plants of the genus Plectranthus | - |
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| quadrant | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies | - |
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| (noun) the area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle | - |
| (noun) any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes | - |
| (noun) a quarter of the circumference of a circle | Synonyms: quarter-circle |
| quadrantanopia | (noun) blindness in one fourth of the visual field | - |
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| quarantine | (noun) isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease | - |
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| (noun) enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease | - |
| rant | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, bombast, claptrap, fustian |
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| (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: harangue, ranting |
| ranter | (noun) someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner | Synonyms: raver |
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| ranting | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: harangue, rant |
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| refrigerant | (noun) any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator) | - |
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| registrant | (noun) a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby) | - |
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| restaurant | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eatery, eating house, eating place |
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| restauranter | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restaurateur |
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| saturant | (noun) a substance which is used to saturate another. | - |
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| spirant | (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative, fricative consonant |
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| tarantella | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantelle |
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| (noun) music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella | - |
| tarantelle | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantella |
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| tarantism | (noun) a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider | - |
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| tarantula | (noun) large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites | - |
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| (noun) large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement) | Synonyms: European wolf spider, Lycosa tarentula |
| transmigrante | (noun) a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell | - |
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| tyrant | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: autocrat, despot |
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| (noun) any person who exercises power in a cruel way | - |
| (noun) in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it | - |
| vagrant | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, drifter, floater, vagabond |
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| warrant | (noun) a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts | - |
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| (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: guarantee, warrantee, warranty |
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction |
| (noun) a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price | Synonyms: stock-purchase warrant, stock warrant |
| warrantee | (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: guarantee, warrant, warranty |
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| (noun) a customer to whom a warrant or guarantee is given | - |
| (noun) a recipient of a warrant issued by a court in the United States | - |
| warranter | (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: guarantor, surety, warrantor |
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| warrantor | (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: guarantor, surety, warranter |
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| warranty | (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: guarantee, warrant, warrantee |
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| xeranthemum | (noun) any plant of the genus Xeranthemum native to southern Europe having chaffy or silvery flower heads with purplish tubular flowers | - |
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