| abampere | (noun) a unit of current equal to 10 amperes | Synonyms: abamp |
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| abbreviation | (noun) shortening something by omitting parts of it | - |
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| (noun) a shortened form of a word or phrase | - |
| abbreviator | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abridger |
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| abhorrence | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abomination, detestation, execration, loathing, odium |
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| abhorrer | (noun) a signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of parliament were condemned and abhorred | - |
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| abjurer | (noun) a person who abjures | - |
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| abreaction | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: catharsis, katharsis |
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| accoutrement | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accouterment |
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| accreditation | (noun) the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards) | - |
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| accretion | (noun) (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance) | - |
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| (noun) an increase by natural growth or addition | Synonyms: accumulation |
| (noun) (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment | - |
| (noun) (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases | - |
| (noun) something contributing to growth or increase | - |
| acorea | (noun) absence of the pupil in an eye | - |
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| acquirement | (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquisition, attainment, skill |
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| acquirer | (noun) a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock | - |
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| (noun) the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card | - |
| (noun) a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee | Synonyms: merchant bank |
| (noun) a person who acquires something (usually permanently) | - |
| acre | (noun) a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries | - |
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| acreage | (noun) an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming) | Synonyms: land area |
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| acres | (noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: demesne, estate, land, landed estate |
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| actress | (noun) a female actor | - |
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| acupressure | (noun) treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body | Synonyms: G-Jo, shiatsu |
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| acupuncture | (noun) treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin | Synonyms: stylostixis |
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| address | (noun) the ability to do or say what is appropriate for the occasion | Synonyms: savoir-faire |
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| (noun) the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball | - |
| (noun) the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience | Synonyms: speech |
| (noun) a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described | - |
| (noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: destination, name and address |
| (noun) the manner of speaking to another individual | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored | Synonyms: computer address, reference |
| (noun) the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with | - |
| addressee | (noun) one to whom something is addressed | - |
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| adherence | (noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adhesion, attachment |
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| (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adhesion, adhesiveness, bond |
| adherent | (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: disciple |
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| admirer | (noun) someone who admires a young woman | Synonyms: adorer |
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| (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter |
| (noun) a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves | - |
| admixture | (noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: commixture, intermixture, mix, mixing, mixture |
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| (noun) an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base | Synonyms: intermixture |
| (noun) the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something | Synonyms: alloy |
| adorer | (noun) someone who admires a young woman | Synonyms: admirer |
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| adrenal | (noun) either of a pair of complex endocrine glands situated near the kidney | Synonyms: adrenal gland, suprarenal gland |
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| adrenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: suprarenalectomy |
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| adrenaline | (noun) a catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action | Synonyms: Adrenalin, epinephrin, epinephrine |
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| adrenarche | (noun) the increase in activity of the adrenal glands just before puberty | - |
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| adrenergic | (noun) drug that has the effects of epinephrine | Synonyms: adrenergic drug |
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| adrenocorticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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| adrenocorticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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| adrenosterone | (noun) a steroid having androgenic activity; obtained from the cortex of the adrenal gland | - |
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| adulterer | (noun) someone who commits adultery or fornication | Synonyms: fornicator |
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| adulteress | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
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| adventure | (noun) a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) | Synonyms: dangerous undertaking, escapade, risky venture |
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| adventurer | (noun) a person who enjoys taking risks | Synonyms: venturer |
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| (noun) someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) | Synonyms: explorer |
| adventuress | (noun) a woman adventurer | - |
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| aeciospore | (noun) spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium | - |
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| affaire | (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
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| afferent | (noun) a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system | Synonyms: afferent nerve, sensory nerve |
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| afforestation | (noun) the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting) | - |
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| aftercare | (noun) care and treatment of a convalescent patient | - |
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| aftereffect | (noun) any result that follows its cause after an interval | - |
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| (noun) a delayed effect of a drug or therapy | - |
| agateware | (noun) pottery that is veined and mottled to resemble agate | - |
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| aggregate | (noun) the whole amount | Synonyms: sum, total, totality |
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| (noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: congeries, conglomeration |
| (noun) material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster | - |
| aggregation | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: assembling, collecting, collection |
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| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, assemblage, collection |
| aggregator | (noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: collector |
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| aggression | (noun) violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked | Synonyms: hostility |
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| (noun) deliberately unfriendly behavior | - |
| (noun) the act of initiating hostilities | - |
| (noun) a disposition to behave aggressively | - |
| (noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggressiveness |
| aggressiveness | (noun) the quality of being bold and enterprising | - |
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| (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: belligerence, pugnacity |
| (noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggression |
| aggressor | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: assailant, assaulter, attacker |
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| (noun) a confident assertive person who acts as instigator | - |
| agreeability | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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| agreeableness | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeability |
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| (noun) pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions | Synonyms: amenity |
| agreement | (noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: correspondence |
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| (noun) the thing arranged or agreed to | Synonyms: arrangement |
| (noun) the verbal act of agreeing | - |
| (noun) the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises | Synonyms: understanding |
| (noun) the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations | Synonyms: concord |
| (noun) harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: accord |
| agriculture | (noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: farming, husbandry |
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| (noun) a large-scale farming enterprise | Synonyms: agribusiness, factory farm |
| (noun) the class of people engaged in growing food | - |
| aigret | (noun) a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume | Synonyms: aigrette |
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| aigrette | (noun) a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume | Synonyms: aigret |
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| aircrew | (noun) the crew of an aircraft | Synonyms: air crew |
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| aircrewman | (noun) a member of an aircrew | - |
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| airfare | (noun) the fare charged for traveling by airplane | - |
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| airscrew | (noun) a propeller that rotates to push against air | Synonyms: airplane propeller, prop |
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| airstream | (noun) a relatively well-defined prevailing wind | - |
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| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: backwash, race, slipstream, wash |
| albacore | (noun) large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters | Synonyms: long-fin tunny, Thunnus alalunga |
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| (noun) relatively small tuna with choice white flesh; major source of canned tuna | - |
| allegoresis | (noun) the interpretation of written, oral, or artistic expression as allegory. | - |
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| allegretto | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed at a somewhat quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro | - |
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| (noun) a quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro | - |
| allure | (noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allurement, temptingness |
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| allurement | (noun) the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) | Synonyms: solicitation |
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| (noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allure, temptingness |
| (noun) attractiveness | - |
| amarelle | (noun) pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice | - |
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| (noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus caproniana |
| amaretto | (noun) an Italian almond liqueur | - |
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| ambassadress | (noun) a woman ambassador | - |
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| ampere | (noun) the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: A, amp |
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| (noun) a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere) | Synonyms: international ampere |
| amphitheatre | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheater, coliseum |
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| (noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheater |
| ancestress | (noun) a woman ancestor | - |
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| andrena | (noun) a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena | Synonyms: andrenid, mining bee |
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| andrenid | (noun) a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena | Synonyms: andrena, mining bee |
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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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| anorectic | (noun) a person suffering from anorexia nervosa | Synonyms: anorexic |
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| anorexia | (noun) a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite | - |
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| anorexic | (noun) a person suffering from anorexia nervosa | Synonyms: anorectic |
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| answerer | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: respondent, responder |
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| antheridiophore | (noun) gametophore bearing antheridia as in certain mosses and liverworts | - |
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| antidepressant | (noun) any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects | Synonyms: antidepressant drug |
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| antidiuretic | (noun) a drug that limits the formation of urine | Synonyms: antidiuretic drug |
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| antifreeze | (noun) a liquid added to the water in a cooling system to lower its freezing point | - |
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| antipyresis | (noun) medication with antipyretics to treat a fever | - |
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| antipyretic | (noun) any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever | Synonyms: febrifuge |
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| antiredeposition | (noun) the process of preventing redeposition | - |
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| antireligiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being opposed to religion. | - |
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| anuresis | (noun) inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuria |
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| aperea | (noun) South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig | Synonyms: Cavia porcellus, wild cavy |
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| aperture | (noun) an man-made opening; usually small | - |
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| (noun) a device that controls amount of light admitted | - |
| (noun) a natural opening in something | - |
| aphaeresis | (noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | Synonyms: apheresis |
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| apheresis | (noun) a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion | Synonyms: pheresis |
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| (noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | Synonyms: aphaeresis |
| apiculture | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: beekeeping |
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| apishamore | (noun) a saddle blanket made of buffalo hide | - |
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| apparel | (noun) clothing in general | Synonyms: clothes, dress, wearing apparel |
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| apparency | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparentness |
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| apparentness | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparency |
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| appreciation | (noun) a favorable judgment | Synonyms: admiration |
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| (noun) an increase in price or value | - |
| (noun) understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something | Synonyms: grasp, hold |
| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: discernment, perceptiveness, taste |
| (noun) an expression of gratitude | - |