| 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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| 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 | - |
| appreciativeness | (noun) warm friendly feelings of gratitude | Synonyms: gratefulness, thankfulness |
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| appreciator | (noun) a person who is fully aware of something and understands it | - |
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| areca | (noun) any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts | - |
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| autocorrect | (noun) a system for automatically correcting text | - |
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| baroreceptor | (noun) a sensory receptor that responds to pressure | - |
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| borecole | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kail, kale |
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| breccia | (noun) a rudaceous rock consisting of sharp fragments embedded in clay or sand | - |
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| cerecloth | (noun) a waterproof waxed cloth once used as a shroud | - |
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| chemoreceptor | (noun) a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli | - |
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| correction | (noun) the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right | Synonyms: rectification |
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| (noun) treatment of a specific defect | - |
| (noun) the act of disciplining | Synonyms: discipline |
| (noun) a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases | - |
| (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastening, chastisement |
| (noun) something substituted for an error | - |
| (noun) a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure | Synonyms: fudge factor |
| corrections | (noun) the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole | - |
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| (noun) the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders | Synonyms: department of corrections |
| correctitude | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: properness, propriety |
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| corrective | (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: restorative |
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| correctness | (noun) conformity to fact or truth | Synonyms: rightness |
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| (noun) the quality of conformity to social expectations | - |
| creche | (noun) a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for | Synonyms: foundling hospital |
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| (noun) a representation of Christ's nativity in the stable at Bethlehem | - |
| deprecatio | (noun) a praying against evil, against others, or oneself; a prayer for the removal of some evil. | - |
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| deprecation | (noun) the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself) | Synonyms: denigration |
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| (noun) a prayer to avert or remove some evil or disaster | - |
| depreciation | (noun) a decrease in price or value | - |
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| (noun) a communication that belittles somebody or something | Synonyms: derogation, disparagement |
| (noun) decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use | Synonyms: wear and tear |
| depreciator | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: detractor, disparager, knocker |
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| direction | (noun) the act of managing something | Synonyms: management |
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| (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: guidance, steering |
| (noun) a general course along which something has a tendency to develop | - |
| (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, focal point, focus, focusing, focussing |
| (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, counselling, guidance |
| (noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: charge, commission |
| (noun) a message describing how something is to be done | Synonyms: instruction |
| (noun) a line leading to a place or point | Synonyms: way |
| (noun) the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves | - |
| directionality | (noun) the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | Synonyms: directivity |
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| (noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction | - |
| directioner | (noun) a fan on the band One Direction | - |
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| directive | (noun) a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity | - |
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| directiveness | (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directivity |
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| directivity | (noun) the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | Synonyms: directionality |
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| (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directiveness |
| directmate | (noun) A type of problem where White, moving first, is required to checkmate Black in a specified number of moves against any defence. | - |
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| directness | (noun) trueness of course toward a goal | Synonyms: straightness |
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| (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, forthrightness, frankness |
| director | (noun) someone who controls resources and expenditures | Synonyms: manager, managing director |
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| (noun) the person who leads a musical group | Synonyms: conductor, music director |
| (noun) someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show | Synonyms: theater director, theatre director |
| (noun) member of a board of directors | - |
| (noun) the person who directs the making of a film | Synonyms: film director |
| directorate | (noun) a group of persons chosen to govern the affairs of a corporation or other large institution | Synonyms: board of directors |
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| directorship | (noun) the position of a director of a business concern | - |
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| directory | (noun) an alphabetical list of names and addresses | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk) | - |
| dreck | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: schlock, shlock |
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| endarterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the inner lining of an artery that is clogged with atherosclerosis | - |
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| entrecote | (noun) cut of meat taken from between the ribs | - |
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| erecting | (noun) the act of building or putting up | Synonyms: erection |
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| erection | (noun) the act of building or putting up | Synonyms: erecting |
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| (noun) a structure that has been erected | - |
| (noun) an erect penis | Synonyms: hard-on |
| erectness | (noun) the property of being upright in posture | Synonyms: uprightness |
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| (noun) position at right angles to the horizon | Synonyms: uprightness, verticality, verticalness |
| fireclay | (noun) a heat-resistant clay | - |
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| firecracker | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, cracker |
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| forecarriage | (noun) a small wheeled carriage attached under the front end of a plow beam. | Synonyms: fore carriage, wheeled forecarriage |
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| forecast | (noun) a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop | Synonyms: prognosis |
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| forecaster | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer |
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| forecasting | (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: foretelling, prediction, prognostication |
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| forecastle | (noun) living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed | Synonyms: fo'c'sle |
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| foreclosure | (noun) the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default | - |
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| forecourt | (noun) the outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings | - |
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| freckle | (noun) a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin | Synonyms: lentigo |
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| gastrectomy | (noun) surgical removal of all or part of the stomach | - |
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| housewrecker | (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housebreaker |
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| hysterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the uterus | - |
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| imprecation | (noun) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) | Synonyms: malediction |
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| (noun) a slanderous accusation | - |
| impreciseness | (noun) the quality of lacking precision | Synonyms: imprecision |
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| imprecision | (noun) the quality of lacking precision | Synonyms: impreciseness |
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| incorrectness | (noun) the quality of not conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: wrongness |
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| (noun) lack of conformity to social expectations | - |
| indirection | (noun) indirect procedure or action | - |
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| (noun) deceitful action that is not straightforward | - |
| indirectness | (noun) having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal | - |
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| insurrection | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: rebellion, revolt, rising, uprising |
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| insurrectionism | (noun) the principle of revolt against constituted authority | - |
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| insurrectionist | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurgent, rebel |
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| leprechaun | (noun) a mischievous elf in Irish folklore | - |
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| misdirection | (noun) management that is careless or inefficient | Synonyms: mismanagement |
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| (noun) the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: distraction |
| (noun) incorrect directions or instructions | - |
| (noun) an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge | - |
| misreckoning | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: miscalculation, misestimation |
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| nephrectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a kidney | - |
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| neurectomy | (noun) surgical removal of all or part of a nerve | - |
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| oophorectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both ovaries | Synonyms: ovariectomy |
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| osmoreceptor | (noun) sensory end organ that responds to changes in osmotic pressure | - |
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| overreckoning | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overrating |
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| panhysterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the uterus and the ovaries and oviducts and cervix and related lymph nodes | Synonyms: radical hysterectomy |
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| precalc | (noun) a college-level algebra and trigonometry course that is designed to prepare students for the study of calculus | Synonyms: precalculus |
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| precalculus | (noun) a college-level algebra and trigonometry course that is designed to prepare students for the study of calculus | Synonyms: precalc |
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| precariousness | (noun) extreme dangerousness | - |
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| (noun) being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance | Synonyms: uncertainness, uncertainty |
| precaution | (noun) a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. | Synonyms: guard, safeguard |
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| (noun) the trait of practicing caution in advance | - |
| (noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, caution, forethought |
| precava | (noun) receives blood from the head and arms and chest and empties into the right atrium of the heart; formed from the azygos and both brachiocephalic veins | Synonyms: superior vena cava |
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| precedence | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedency, precession |
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| (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedency, priority |
| (noun) status established in order of importance or urgency | Synonyms: precedency, priority |
| precedency | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedence, precession |
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| (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, priority |
| (noun) status established in order of importance or urgency | Synonyms: precedence, priority |
| precedent | (noun) an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time | Synonyms: case in point |
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| (noun) (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions | Synonyms: case law, common law |
| (noun) a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time) | - |
| (noun) a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws | Synonyms: case law, common law |
| precentor | (noun) the musical director of a choir | Synonyms: cantor, choirmaster |
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| precentorship | (noun) the position of precentor | - |
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| precept | (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: commandment, teaching |
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| (noun) rule of personal conduct | Synonyms: principle |
| preceptor | (noun) teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford) | Synonyms: don |
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| preceptorship | (noun) the position of preceptor | - |
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| precession | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedence, precedency |
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| (noun) the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone | - |
| prechlorination | (noun) chlorination prior to another chemical process | - |
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| precinct | (noun) a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes | - |
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| preciosity | (noun) the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined | Synonyms: preciousness |
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| preciousness | (noun) the positive quality of being precious and beyond value | Synonyms: invaluableness, pricelessness, valuableness |
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| (noun) the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined | Synonyms: preciosity |
| (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: costliness, dearness |
| precipice | (noun) a very steep cliff | - |
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| precipitance | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitancy | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitant | (noun) an agent that causes a precipitate to form | - |
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| precipitate | (noun) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering | - |
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| precipitateness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitation | (noun) an unexpected acceleration or hastening | - |
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| (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry |
| (noun) the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height | - |
| (noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: downfall |
| (noun) the process of forming a chemical precipitate | - |
| (noun) the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time | - |
| precipitator | (noun) removes dust particles from gases by electrostatic precipitation | Synonyms: Cottrell precipitator, electrostatic precipitator |
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| precipitin | (noun) an antibody that causes precipitation when it unites with its antigen | - |
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| precipitousness | (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: abruptness, steepness |
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| (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, suddenness |
| precis | (noun) a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory | Synonyms: abstract, outline, synopsis |
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