| 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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| 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 | - |
| camisole | (noun) a short negligee | - |
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| (noun) a short sleeveless undergarment for women | Synonyms: underbodice |
| chrysolite | (noun) a brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone | - |
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| consolation | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: comfort, solace |
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| (noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: solace, solacement |
| console | (noun) housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television | Synonyms: cabinet |
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| (noun) an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture) | - |
| (noun) a scientific instrument consisting of displays and an input device that an operator can use to monitor and control a system (especially a computer system) | - |
| (noun) a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall | Synonyms: console table |
| consolidation | (noun) the act of combining into an integral whole | Synonyms: integration |
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| (noun) combining into a solid mass | - |
| (noun) something that has consolidated into a compact mass | - |
| cortisol | (noun) an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism | Synonyms: Cortef, hydrocortisone, Hydrocortone |
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| creosol | (noun) a colorless to yellow aromatic liquid that is a constituent of creosote | - |
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| cresol | (noun) any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols; derived from coal or wood tar; used as a disinfectant | Synonyms: methyl phenol |
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| cytosol | (noun) the aqueous part of the cytoplasm within which various particles and organelles are suspended | - |
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| desolation | (noun) an event that results in total destruction | Synonyms: devastation |
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| (noun) sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned | Synonyms: forlornness, loneliness |
| (noun) the state of being decayed or destroyed | Synonyms: devastation |
| (noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bareness, bleakness, nakedness |
| disconsolateness | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, despondency, heartsickness |
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| dissolubility | (noun) the property of being dissoluble | Synonyms: solubleness |
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| dissoluteness | (noun) indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures | Synonyms: incontinence, self-gratification |
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| dissolution | (noun) the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations) | Synonyms: breakup |
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| (noun) the termination of a meeting | Synonyms: adjournment |
| (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, licentiousness, looseness, profligacy |
| (noun) separation into component parts | Synonyms: disintegration |
| (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolving |
| dissolve | (noun) (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out | - |
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| dissolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| dissolver | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| dissolving | (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| entresol | (noun) intermediate floor just above the ground floor | Synonyms: mezzanine, mezzanine floor |
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| gasolene | (noun) a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines | Synonyms: gas, gasoline, petrol |
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| gasoline | (noun) a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines | Synonyms: gas, gasolene, petrol |
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| girasol | (noun) tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers | Synonyms: Helianthus tuberosus, Jerusalem artichoke, Jerusalem artichoke sunflower |
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| (noun) an opal with flaming orange and yellow and red colors | Synonyms: fire opal |
| glossolalia | (noun) repetitive nonmeaningful speech (especially that associated with a trance state or religious fervor) | - |
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| hydrosol | (noun) a sol (colloid) in which the continuous phase is water. | - |
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| innersole | (noun) the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests | Synonyms: insole |
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| insolation | (noun) therapeutic exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: heliotherapy |
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| (noun) incident solar radiation | - |
| (noun) sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat | Synonyms: siriasis, sunstroke, thermic fever |
| insole | (noun) the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests | Synonyms: innersole |
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| insolence | (noun) an offensive disrespectful impudent act | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence |
| insolubility | (noun) the quality of being insoluble and difficult to dissolve in liquid | - |
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| (noun) the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it impossible to solve | Synonyms: unsolvability |
| insolvency | (noun) the lack of financial resources | - |
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| insolvent | (noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: bankrupt |
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| irresoluteness | (noun) the trait of being irresolute; lacking firmness of purpose | Synonyms: irresolution |
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| irresolution | (noun) the trait of being irresolute; lacking firmness of purpose | Synonyms: irresoluteness |
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| (noun) doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action | Synonyms: indecision, indecisiveness |
| isolation | (noun) the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others | Synonyms: closing off |
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| (noun) a country's withdrawal from international politics | - |
| (noun) a feeling of being disliked and alone | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it | - |
| (noun) a state of separation between persons or groups | - |
| isolationism | (noun) a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations | - |
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| isolationist | (noun) an advocate of isolationism in international affairs | - |
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| isoleucine | (noun) an essential amino acid found in proteins; isomeric with leucine | - |
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| isolex | (noun) an isogloss marking off the area in which a particular item of vocabulary is found. | - |
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| mausoleum | (noun) a large burial chamber, usually above ground | - |
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| mirasol | (noun) annual sunflower grown for silage and for its seeds which are a source of oil; common throughout United States and much of North America | Synonyms: common sunflower, Helianthus annuus |
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| misology | (noun) hatred of reasoning | - |
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| nosology | (noun) the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease | Synonyms: diagnostics |
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| obsolescence | (noun) the process of becoming obsolete; falling into disuse or becoming out of date | - |
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| obsoleteness | (noun) the property of being out of date and not current | Synonyms: superannuation |
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| outsole | (noun) the outer sole of a shoe or boot that is the bottom of the shoe and makes contact with the ground | - |
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| parasol | (noun) a handheld collapsible source of shade | Synonyms: sunshade |
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| parisology | (noun) the use of ambiguous words | - |
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| plimsoll | (noun) a light gym shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas top | - |
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| podsol | (noun) a soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation; an organic mat over a grey leached layer | Synonyms: podsol soil, podsolic soil, podzol, podzol soil |
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| posology | (noun) the pharmacological determination of appropriate doses of drugs and medicines | - |
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| prednisolone | (noun) a glucocorticoid (trade names Pediapred or Prelone) used to treat inflammatory conditions | Synonyms: Pediapred, Prelone |
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| regosol | (noun) a type of soil consisting of unconsolidated material from freshly deposited alluvium or sand | - |
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| resoluteness | (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resolution, resolve |
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| resolution | (noun) a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner | - |
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| (noun) finding a solution to a problem | Synonyms: solving |
| (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolve |
| (noun) analysis into clear-cut components | Synonyms: resolving |
| (noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: closure, settlement |
| (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, result, solution, solvent |
| (noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: declaration, resolve |
| (noun) (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord | - |
| (noun) the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung) | - |
| (noun) the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together | Synonyms: resolving power |
| (noun) (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture | - |
| resolve | (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution |
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| (noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: declaration, resolution |
| resolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, solvent |
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| resolving | (noun) analysis into clear-cut components | Synonyms: resolution |
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| rissole | (noun) minced cooked meat or fish coated in egg and breadcrumbs and fried in deep fat | - |
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| sol | (noun) the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization | Synonyms: so, soh |
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| (noun) a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid | Synonyms: colloidal solution, colloidal suspension |
| solace | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: comfort, consolation |
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| (noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: consolation, solacement |
| (noun) comfort in disappointment or misery | Synonyms: solacement |
| solacement | (noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: consolation, solace |
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| (noun) comfort in disappointment or misery | Synonyms: solace |
| solan | (noun) very large white gannet with black wing tips | Synonyms: solan goose, solant goose, Sula bassana |
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| solarisation | (noun) exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: solarization |
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| solarium | (noun) a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun | Synonyms: sun lounge, sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch, sunporch, sunroom |
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| solarization | (noun) exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: solarisation |
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| solder | (noun) an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces | - |
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| solderer | (noun) a worker who joins or mends with solder | - |
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| soldering | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: bonding |
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| soldier | (noun) a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony | - |
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| (noun) an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army | - |
| soldierfish | (noun) the larger squirrelfishes | Synonyms: soldier-fish |
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| soldiering | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, slacking |
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| (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiership |
| soldiership | (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiering |
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| soldiery | (noun) soldiers collectively | Synonyms: military personnel, troops |
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| sole | (noun) right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European | - |
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| (noun) the underside of footwear or a golf club | - |
| (noun) the underside of the foot | - |
| (noun) lean flesh of any of several flatfish | Synonyms: fillet of sole |
| solebar | (noun) one of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor. | Synonyms: side sill |
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| solecism | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip |
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| solemness | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemnity, staidness |
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| solemnisation | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnization |
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| solemnity | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemness, staidness |
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| (noun) a solemn and dignified feeling | Synonyms: gravity |
| solemnization | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnisation |
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| solenogaster | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: aplacophoran |
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| solenoid | (noun) a coil of wire around an iron core; becomes a magnet when current passes through the coil | - |
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| soleus | (noun) a broad flat muscle in the calf of the leg under the gastrocnemius muscle | Synonyms: soleus muscle |
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| solfa | (noun) a system of solmization using the solfa syllables: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti | Synonyms: tonic solfa |
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| solfege | (noun) a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable | Synonyms: solfeggio |
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| (noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfeggio, solmization |
| solfeggio | (noun) a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable | Synonyms: solfege |
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| (noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfege, solmization |
| solferino | (noun) a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino | Synonyms: purplish pink |
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| solicitation | (noun) the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) | Synonyms: allurement |
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| (noun) an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status | - |
| (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, ingathering |
| solicitor | (noun) a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents | - |
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| (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: canvasser |
| solicitorship | (noun) the position of solicitor | - |
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| solicitousness | (noun) a feeling of excessive concern | Synonyms: solicitude |
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