| absolute | (noun) something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative | - |
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| absoluteness | (noun) the quality of being absolute | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: starkness, utterness |
| absolution | (noun) the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance | Synonyms: remission, remission of sin, remittal |
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| (noun) the condition of being formally forgiven by a priest in the sacrament of penance | - |
| absolutisation | (noun) the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute. | Synonyms: absolutization |
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| absolutism | (noun) the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy. | - |
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| (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: totalism, totalitarianism |
| (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
| (noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence | Synonyms: despotism, tyranny |
| absolutist | (noun) one who advocates absolutism | - |
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| absolutization | (noun) the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute. | Synonyms: absolutisation |
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| absolver | (noun) someone who grants absolution | - |
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| absorbance | (noun) (physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: optical density, photographic density, transmission density |
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| absorbate | (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being absorbed | - |
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| absorbency | (noun) the property of being absorbent | - |
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| absorbent | (noun) a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance | Synonyms: absorbent material |
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| absorber | (noun) (physics) material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation | - |
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| absorptance | (noun) a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber | Synonyms: absorption coefficient, coefficient of absorption |
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| absorption | (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: engrossment, preoccupancy, preoccupation |
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| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: concentration, engrossment, immersion |
| (noun) (chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid | Synonyms: soaking up |
| (noun) the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion | Synonyms: assimilation |
| (noun) (physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium | - |
| (noun) the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another | Synonyms: assimilation |
| absorptivity | (noun) (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body | Synonyms: absorption factor |
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| accessory | (noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: add-on, appurtenance, supplement |
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| (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accouterment, accoutrement |
| (noun) someone who helps another person commit a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
| acrosome | (noun) a process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg | - |
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| adsorbate | (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being adsorbed | - |
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| adsorbent | (noun) a material having capacity or tendency to adsorb another substance | Synonyms: adsorbent material |
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| adsorber | (noun) an apparatus used in the adhesion of atoms, ions, or molecules from a gas, liquid, or dissolved solid to a surface. | - |
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| adsorption | (noun) the accumulation of molecules of a gas to form a thin film on the surface of a solid | Synonyms: surface assimilation |
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| advisor | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: adviser, consultant |
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| advisory | (noun) an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat | - |
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| advowson | (noun) the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice | - |
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| aerosol | (noun) a dispenser that holds a substance under pressure and that can release it as a fine spray (usually by means of a propellant gas) | Synonyms: aerosol bomb, aerosol can, aerosol container, spray can |
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| (noun) a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas | - |
| aggressor | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: assailant, assaulter, attacker |
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| (noun) a confident assertive person who acts as instigator | - |
| anchorperson | (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchor, anchorman |
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| anisogamete | (noun) either of a pair of unlike gametes especially those unlike in size | - |
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| anisogamy | (noun) (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size) | - |
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| anisometropia | (noun) difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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| anisotropy | (noun) the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions | - |
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| anthroposophy | (noun) a system of beliefs and practices based on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner; it claims to integrate the practical and psychological in child-centered education | - |
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| antimeson | (noun) the antiparticle of a meson | - |
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| arioso | (noun) (music) a short recitative that is melodic but is not an aria | - |
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| arson | (noun) malicious burning to destroy property | Synonyms: fire-raising, incendiarism |
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| arsonist | (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: firebug, incendiary |
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| aspersorium | (noun) the basin or other vessel that holds holy water in Roman Catholic Churches | - |
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| (noun) a short-handled device with a globe containing a sponge; used for sprinkling holy water | Synonyms: aspergill |
| assessor | (noun) an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it | Synonyms: tax assessor |
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| associability | (noun) the capability of being easily associated or joined or connected in thought | Synonyms: associableness |
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| associableness | (noun) the capability of being easily associated or joined or connected in thought | Synonyms: associability |
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| associate | (noun) a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies | Synonyms: associate degree |
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| (noun) any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another | - |
| (noun) a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor | - |
| (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: companion, comrade, familiar, fellow |
| (noun) a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise | - |
| associateship | (noun) the position of associate (as in an office or academy) | - |
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| association | (noun) the act of consorting with or joining with others | - |
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| (noun) the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
| (noun) a formal organization of people or groups of people | - |
| (noun) (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding | - |
| (noun) a relation resulting from interaction or dependence | - |
| (noun) a social or business relationship | Synonyms: affiliation, tie-up, tie |
| (noun) the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination | - |
| associationism | (noun) (psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity | Synonyms: association theory |
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| assonance | (noun) the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | Synonyms: vowel rhyme |
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| assortment | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| automysophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being dirty | - |
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| autosome | (noun) any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa | Synonyms: somatic chromosome |
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| bagassosis | (noun) alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust) | Synonyms: bagascosis |
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| basophil | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophile |
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| basophile | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophil |
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| basophilia | (noun) the tendency of cells to stain with basic dyes | - |
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| basso | (noun) the lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: bass, bass voice |
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| (noun) an adult male singer with the lowest voice | Synonyms: bass |
| bassoon | (noun) a double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family | - |
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| bassoonist | (noun) a musician who plays the bassoon | - |
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| bedsore | (noun) a chronic ulcer of the skin caused by prolonged pressure on it (as in bedridden patients) | Synonyms: decubitus ulcer, pressure sore |
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| benison | (noun) a spoken blessing | - |
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| besom | (noun) a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle | - |
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| birdsong | (noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird | Synonyms: birdcall, call, song |
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| bison | (noun) any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns | - |
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| blossom | (noun) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | Synonyms: bloom, flower |
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| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| blossoming | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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| bobbysock | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, anklets, bobbysocks |
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| bobbysocks | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, anklets, bobbysock |
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| bobbysoxer | (noun) an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s) | Synonyms: bobby-socker |
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| bondsperson | (noun) someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
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| bosom | (noun) a close affectionate and protective acceptance | Synonyms: embrace |
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| (noun) cloth that covers the chest or breasts | - |
| (noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, breast, knocker, tit, titty |
| (noun) a person's breast or chest | - |
| (noun) the locus of feelings and intuitions | Synonyms: heart |
| (noun) the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept | - |
| boson | (noun) any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons | - |
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| burdensomeness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
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| businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| cabassous | (noun) naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America | Synonyms: Cabassous unicinctus, tatouay |
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| caisson | (noun) large watertight chamber used for construction under water | Synonyms: cofferdam, pneumatic caisson |
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| (noun) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome | Synonyms: coffer, lacunar |
| (noun) a chest to hold ammunition | Synonyms: ammunition chest |
| (noun) a two-wheeled military vehicle carrying artillery ammunition | - |
| callosotomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosectomy |
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| calosoma | (noun) any beetle of the genus Calosoma | - |
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| calypso | (noun) rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf | Synonyms: Calypso bulbosa, fairy-slipper |
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| camisole | (noun) a short negligee | - |
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| (noun) a short sleeveless undergarment for women | Synonyms: underbodice |
| caparison | (noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: housing, trapping |
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| cassock | (noun) a black garment reaching down to the ankles; worn by priests or choristers | - |
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| cassowary | (noun) large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest | - |
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| censor | (noun) a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable | - |
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| (noun) someone who censures or condemns | - |
| censoring | (noun) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances | Synonyms: censorship |
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| (noun) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy | Synonyms: censorship, security review |
| censorship | (noun) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances | Synonyms: censoring |
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| (noun) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy | Synonyms: censoring, security review |
| centrosome | (noun) small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules | Synonyms: central body |
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| chairperson | (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, president |
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| chemisorption | (noun) adsorption (especially when irreversible) by means of chemical instead of physical forces | Synonyms: chemosorption |
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| chemosorption | (noun) adsorption (especially when irreversible) by means of chemical instead of physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorption |
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| chondriosome | (noun) an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy | Synonyms: mitochondrion |
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| chordamesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordomesoderm |
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| chordomesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordamesoderm |
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| chrisom | (noun) a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam | Synonyms: chrism, holy oil, sacramental oil |
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| chromosome | (noun) a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order | - |
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| chrysoberyl | (noun) a rare hard yellow green mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in crystal form; used as a gemstone | - |
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| chrysolite | (noun) a brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone | - |
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| chrysomelid | (noun) brightly colored beetle that feeds on plant leaves; larvae infest roots and stems | Synonyms: leaf beetle |
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| chrysopid | (noun) pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvae | Synonyms: green lacewing, stink fly |
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| chrysoprase | (noun) a green variety of chalcedony valued as a gemstone | - |
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| chrysotherapy | (noun) the use of chemicals containing gold for treating diseases (such as rheumatoid arthritis) | - |
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| chrysotile | (noun) a grey or green fibrous mineral; an important source of commercial asbestos | - |
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| cloisonne | (noun) enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips | - |
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