| adherent | (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: disciple |
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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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| apparentness | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparency |
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| apprentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: learner, prentice |
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| apprenticeship | (noun) the position of apprentice | - |
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| belligerent | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
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| brent | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant, brant goose, brent goose |
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| countercurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: crosscurrent |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: crosscurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| current | (noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: stream |
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| (noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: flow, stream |
| (noun) a flow of electricity through a conductor | Synonyms: electric current |
| currentness | (noun) the property of belonging to the present time | Synonyms: currency, up-to-dateness |
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| dedifferentiation | (noun) the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| deterrent | (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
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| differentia | (noun) distinguishing characteristics (especially in different species of a genus) | - |
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| differential | (noun) a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves | Synonyms: differential gear |
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| (noun) a quality that differentiates between similar things | - |
| (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derivative, derived function, differential coefficient, first derivative |
| differentiation | (noun) the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function | - |
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| (noun) a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes | Synonyms: distinction |
| (noun) (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function | Synonyms: specialisation, specialization |
| differentiator | (noun) a person who (or that which) differentiates | Synonyms: discriminator |
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| efferent | (noun) a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands | Synonyms: efferent nerve, motor nerve |
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| godparent | (noun) a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism | - |
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| grandparent | (noun) a parent of your father or mother | - |
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| occurrent | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: happening, natural event, occurrence |
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| parent | (noun) an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained | - |
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| (noun) a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian | - |
| parentage | (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, pedigree, stemma, stock |
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| (noun) the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents | Synonyms: birth |
| (noun) the state of being a parent | Synonyms: parenthood |
| parenthesis | (noun) either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material | - |
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| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, divagation, excursus |
| parenthetical | (noun) an expression in parentheses | Synonyms: parenthetical expression |
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| parenthood | (noun) the state of being a parent | Synonyms: parentage |
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| prentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, learner |
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| referent | (noun) something referred to; the object of a reference | - |
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| (noun) the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate | - |
| (noun) something that refers; a term that refers to another term | - |
| rent | (noun) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something | Synonyms: rip, split |
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| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rip, snag, split, tear |
| (noun) a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service | - |
| (noun) the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions | Synonyms: economic rent |
| rental | (noun) the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car) | Synonyms: renting |
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| (noun) property that is leased or rented out or let | Synonyms: lease, letting |
| rente | (noun) income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments | Synonyms: annuity |
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| renter | (noun) someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else | Synonyms: tenant |
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| (noun) an owner of property who receives payment for its use by another person | - |
| rentier | (noun) someone whose income is from property rents or bond interest and other investments | - |
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| renting | (noun) the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car) | Synonyms: rental |
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| stepparent | (noun) the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| torrent | (noun) a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: violent stream |
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| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, waterspout |
| (noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation |
| transparentness | (noun) the quality of being clear and transparent | Synonyms: transparence, transparency |
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| undercurrent | (noun) a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning | Synonyms: undertone |
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| (noun) a current below the surface of a fluid | Synonyms: undertide |
| vicegerent | (noun) someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy | - |
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