| accreditation | (noun) the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards) | - |
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| antiredeposition | (noun) the process of preventing redeposition | - |
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| assuredness | (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, cool, poise, sang-froid |
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| boredom | (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious | Synonyms: ennui, tedium |
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| colored | (noun) a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive | Synonyms: colored person, coloured, coloured person |
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| coloured | (noun) a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive | Synonyms: colored, colored person, coloured person |
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| contredanse | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance, country dancing |
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| cred | (noun) credibility among young fashionable urban individuals | Synonyms: street cred, street credibility |
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| credence | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credenza |
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| (noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: acceptance |
| credendum | (noun) (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided | Synonyms: article of faith |
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| credential | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credentials |
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| credentials | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credential |
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| credenza | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credence |
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| credibility | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibleness |
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| credibleness | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibility |
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| credit | (noun) recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours | Synonyms: course credit |
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| (noun) used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise | - |
| (noun) an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments | Synonyms: credit rating |
| (noun) approval | Synonyms: recognition |
| (noun) an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work | - |
| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services | Synonyms: deferred payment |
| (noun) an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items | Synonyms: credit entry |
| (noun) money available for a client to borrow | - |
| creditor | (noun) a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists | - |
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| credits | (noun) a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film) | - |
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| creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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| credo | (noun) any system of principles or beliefs | Synonyms: creed |
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| credulity | (noun) tendency to believe readily | - |
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| credulousness | (noun) tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived | Synonyms: gullibility |
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| daredevil | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler |
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| daredevilry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredeviltry |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| depredation | (noun) an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding | Synonyms: predation |
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| (noun) (usually plural) a destructive action | Synonyms: ravage |
| discredit | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem | Synonyms: disrepute |
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| dredge | (noun) a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed | - |
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| dredger | (noun) a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging | - |
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| enamoredness | (noun) a feeling of love or fondness | Synonyms: amorousness |
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| featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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| firedamp | (noun) a mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air | - |
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| firedog | (noun) metal supports for logs in a fireplace | Synonyms: andiron, dog-iron, dog |
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| firedrake | (noun) a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings | Synonyms: dragon, European dragon |
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| foredeck | (noun) the deck between the bridge and the forecastle | - |
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| foredge | (noun) the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved; the part opposite the spine | Synonyms: fore edge |
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| hatred | (noun) the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action | Synonyms: hate |
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| hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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| hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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| heredity | (noun) the total of inherited attributes | Synonyms: genetic endowment |
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| (noun) the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next | - |
| hundred | (noun) ten 10s | Synonyms: 100, C, century, one C |
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| hundredth | (noun) one part in a hundred equal parts | Synonyms: one-hundredth, one percent |
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| (noun) position 100 in a countable series of things | - |
| hundredweight | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds | Synonyms: cwt, long hundredweight |
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| (noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, cwt, quintal, short hundredweight |
| (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, doppelzentner, metric hundredweight |
| incredibility | (noun) the quality of being incredible | Synonyms: incredibleness |
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| incredibleness | (noun) the quality of being incredible | Synonyms: incredibility |
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| incredulity | (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, mental rejection, scepticism, skepticism |
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| infrared | (noun) the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum; electromagnetic wave frequencies below the visible range | Synonyms: infrared frequency |
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| (noun) electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than visible light but shorter than radio waves | Synonyms: infrared emission, infrared light, infrared radiation |
| ingredient | (noun) a component of a mixture or compound | - |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, element, factor |
| (noun) food that is a component of a mixture in cooking | Synonyms: fixings |
| insured | (noun) a person whose interests are protected by an insurance policy; a person who contracts for an insurance policy that indemnifies him against loss of property or life or health etc. | Synonyms: insured person |
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| irredenta | (noun) a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another | Synonyms: irridenta |
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| irredentism | (noun) the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related | Synonyms: irridentism |
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| irredentist | (noun) an advocate of irredentism | Synonyms: irridentist |
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| kindred | (noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: clan, kin, kin group, kinship group, tribe |
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| overcredulity | (noun) too much credulity | - |
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| oxidoreductase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes oxidation-reduction | - |
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| oxidoreduction | (noun) a reversible chemical reaction in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction | Synonyms: oxidation-reduction, redox |
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| predaceousness | (noun) (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey. | Synonyms: predaciousness, rapaciousness, rapacity |
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| predaciousness | (noun) (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey. | Synonyms: predaceousness, rapaciousness, rapacity |
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| predation | (noun) the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey | - |
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| (noun) an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding | Synonyms: depredation |
| predator | (noun) any animal that lives by preying on other animals | Synonyms: predatory animal |
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| (noun) someone who attacks in search of booty | Synonyms: marauder, piranha, vulture |
| predecessor | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, harbinger, herald, precursor |
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| (noun) one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office) | - |
| predestinarian | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist |
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| predestinarianism | (noun) the belief or doctrine of predestinarians | - |
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| predestination | (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: foreordination, predetermination, preordination |
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| (noun) previous determination as if by destiny or fate | - |
| predestinationist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinarian |
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| predetermination | (noun) the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place | - |
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| (noun) a mental determination or resolve in advance; an antecedent intention to do something | - |
| (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: foreordination, predestination, preordination |
| predicament | (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: plight, quandary |
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| predicate | (noun) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements | Synonyms: verb phrase |
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| (noun) (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula | - |
| predication | (noun) (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument | Synonyms: postulation |
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| predicator | (noun) an expression that predicates | - |
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| predictability | (noun) the quality of being predictable | - |
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| prediction | (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prevision |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prognostication |
| predictor | (noun) a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival | - |
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| (noun) information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events | - |
| (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer |
| predilection | (noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: orientation, preference |
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| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, preference, taste |
| predisposition | (noun) a disposition in advance to react in a particular way | - |
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| (noun) an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way | - |
| (noun) susceptibility to a pathogen | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| prednisolone | (noun) a glucocorticoid (trade names Pediapred or Prelone) used to treat inflammatory conditions | Synonyms: Pediapred, Prelone |
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| prednisone | (noun) a dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten); used as an anti-inflammatory drug in the treatment of arthritis and as an immunosuppressant | Synonyms: Deltasone, Liquid Pred, Meticorten, Orasone |
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| predominance | (noun) the quality of being more noticeable than anything else | Synonyms: predomination |
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| (noun) the state of being predominant over others | Synonyms: predomination, prepotency |
| predomination | (noun) the quality of being more noticeable than anything else | Synonyms: predominance |
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| (noun) the state of being predominant over others | Synonyms: predominance, prepotency |
| preparedness | (noun) the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) | Synonyms: preparation, readiness |
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| purebred | (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, thoroughbred |
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| red | (noun) red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood | Synonyms: redness |
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| (noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | Synonyms: Bolshevik, bolshie, bolshy, Marxist |
| (noun) the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue | Synonyms: loss, red ink |
| redact | (noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication | Synonyms: redactor, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter |
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| redaction | (noun) the act of putting something in writing | - |
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| (noun) putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form | Synonyms: editing |
| redactor | (noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication | Synonyms: redact, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter |
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| redbelly | (noun) freshwater turtle of Chesapeake Bay tributaries having red markings on the lower shell | Synonyms: Pseudemys rubriventris, red-bellied terrapin, red-bellied turtle |
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| redberry | (noun) small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries | Synonyms: red-berry, Rhamnus croceus |
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| (noun) North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries | Synonyms: Actaea rubra, red-berry, red baneberry, snakeberry |
| redbird | (noun) crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male | Synonyms: cardinal, cardinal grosbeak, Cardinalis cardinalis, Richmondena Cardinalis |
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| (noun) the male is bright red with black wings and tail | Synonyms: firebird, Piranga olivacea, scarlet tanager |
| redbone | (noun) a speedy red or red-and-tan American hound | - |
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| redbreast | (noun) small Old World songbird with a reddish breast | Synonyms: Erithacus rubecola, Old World robin, robin, robin redbreast |
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| redbrush | (noun) common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers | Synonyms: American dogwood, Cornus stolonifera, red dogwood, red osier, red osier dogwood |
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| redbud | (noun) small shrubby tree of eastern North America similar to the Judas tree having usually pink flowers; found in damp sheltered underwood | Synonyms: Cercis canadensis |
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| redbug | (noun) larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation | Synonyms: chigger, harvest mite, jigger |
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| redcap | (noun) a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station | - |
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| (noun) a member of the military police in Britain | - |
| redcoat | (noun) British soldier; so-called because of his red coat (especially during the American Revolution) | Synonyms: lobsterback |
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| reddishness | (noun) The quality of being somewhat red. | - |
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| reddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: raddle, ruddle |
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| rededication | (noun) a new dedication | - |
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| redeemer | (noun) someone who redeems or buys back (promissory notes or merchandise or commercial paper etc.) | - |
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| redefinition | (noun) the act of giving a new definition | - |
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