| adjustor | (noun) one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement | Synonyms: adjuster, claim agent, claims adjuster, claims adjustor |
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| alpenstock | (noun) a stout staff with a metal point; used by mountain climbers | - |
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| ambystomid | (noun) small to moderate-sized terrestrial or semiaquatic New World salamander | Synonyms: ambystomid salamander |
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| anastomosis | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: inosculation |
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| ancestor | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root |
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| antipasto | (noun) a course of appetizers in an Italian meal | - |
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| aristocracy | (noun) a privileged class holding hereditary titles | Synonyms: nobility |
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| (noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: gentry |
| aristocrat | (noun) a member of the aristocracy | Synonyms: blue blood, patrician |
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| aristocratism | (noun) the principles, practices or characteristics of aristocracy. | - |
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| asbestos | (noun) a fibrous amphibole; used for making fireproof articles; inhaling fibers can cause asbestosis or lung cancer | - |
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| asbestosis | (noun) lung disease caused by inhaling asbestos particles | - |
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| astonishment | (noun) the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising | Synonyms: amazement |
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| asystole | (noun) absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death | Synonyms: cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest |
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| attestor | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestator, witness |
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| backstop | (noun) a precaution in case of an emergency | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field | - |
| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: catcher |
| ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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| ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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| barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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| (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
| bestowal | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowment, conferment, conferral |
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| (noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowment |
| bestower | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: conferrer, donor, giver, presenter |
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| bestowment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, conferment, conferral |
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| (noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowal |
| bialystoker | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialy |
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| bilestone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: gallstone |
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| bitstock | (noun) a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring | Synonyms: brace |
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| blastocele | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocoel, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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| blastocoel | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocele, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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| blastocoele | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocele, blastocoel, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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| blastocyst | (noun) the blastula of a placental mammal in which some differentiation of cells has occurred | Synonyms: blastodermic vessicle |
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| blastocyte | (noun) an undifferentiated embryonic cell | - |
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| blastocytoma | (noun) a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells | Synonyms: blastoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma |
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| blastoderm | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastodisc, germinal area, germinal disc |
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| blastodisc | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastoderm, germinal area, germinal disc |
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| blastoff | (noun) the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination | Synonyms: shot |
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| blastogenesis | (noun) theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm | - |
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| (noun) asexual reproduction by budding | - |
| blastoma | (noun) a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells | Synonyms: blastocytoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma |
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| blastomere | (noun) any cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg | - |
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| blastomycete | (noun) any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals | - |
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| blastomycosis | (noun) any of several infections of the skin or mucous membrane caused by Blastomyces | - |
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| blastopore | (noun) the opening into the archenteron | - |
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| blastosphere | (noun) early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs | Synonyms: blastula |
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| bloodstock | (noun) thoroughbred horses (collectively) | - |
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| bloodstone | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: heliotrope |
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| bluestocking | (noun) a woman having literary or intellectual interests | Synonyms: bas bleu |
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| bluestone | (noun) bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building | - |
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| bookstore | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstall |
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| brachistochrone | (noun) a curve between two points along which a body can move under gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve. | - |
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| brainstorm | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainwave, insight |
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| brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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| breakstone | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: rockfoil, saxifrage |
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| brimstone | (noun) an old name for sulfur | Synonyms: native sulfur, native sulphur |
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| brownstone | (noun) a row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color | - |
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| (noun) a reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings | - |
| campstool | (noun) a folding stool | - |
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| canafistola | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistula, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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| capstone | (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: copestone, coping stone, stretcher |
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| (noun) a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination | Synonyms: copestone, finishing touch |
| castor | (noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: beaver |
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| (noun) a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable | Synonyms: caster |
| (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar | Synonyms: caster |
| catostomid | (noun) a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae | - |
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| cestode | (noun) ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | Synonyms: tapeworm |
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| chalkstone | (noun) a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout | Synonyms: tophus |
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| cherrystone | (noun) a half-grown quahog | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
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| (noun) small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
| cholecystokinin | (noun) a gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion of pancreatic enzymes and the contraction and emptying of the gall bladder; its release is stimulated by the presence of fatty acids and amino acids in the small intestine | - |
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| chrestomathy | (noun) a selection of passages from different authors that is compiled as an aid in learning a language | - |
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| chromoblastomycosis | (noun) a fungal infection characterized by itchy warty nodules on the skin | - |
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| claystone | (noun) fine-grained rock consisting of compacted clay particles | - |
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| clearstory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clerestory |
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| cleistocarp | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistothecium |
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| cleistogamy | (noun) the production of small nonopening self-pollinating flowers | - |
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| cleistothecium | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistocarp |
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| clerestory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clearstory |
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| clingstone | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit | Synonyms: cling |
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| cobblestone | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobble, sett |
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| colostomy | (noun) a surgical operation that creates an opening from the colon to the surface of the body to function as an anus | - |
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| colpocystocele | (noun) hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes through the wall of the vagina; sometimes occurs after childbirth | Synonyms: cystocele |
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| consistory | (noun) a church tribunal or governing body | - |
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| cookstove | (noun) a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove) | - |
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| copestone | (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: capstone, coping stone, stretcher |
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| (noun) a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination | Synonyms: capstone, finishing touch |
| cornerstone | (noun) a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls | - |
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| (noun) a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies | - |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
| costochondritis | (noun) inflammation at the junction of a rib and its cartilage | - |
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| cristobalite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of silica; found in volcanic rocks | - |
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| curbstone | (noun) a paving stone forming part of a curb | Synonyms: kerbstone |
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| custodian | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: keeper, steward |
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| custodianship | (noun) the position of custodian | - |
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| custody | (noun) holding by the police | - |
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| (noun) (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child | Synonyms: hands |
| (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: detainment, detention, hold |
| custom | (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: usage, usance |
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| (noun) habitual patronage | - |
| (noun) a specific practice of long standing | Synonyms: tradition |
| (noun) money collected under a tariff | Synonyms: customs, customs duty, impost |
| customariness | (noun) The state or quality of agreeing with, or being established by, custom or common usage. | - |
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| customer | (noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: client |
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| customhouse | (noun) a government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country | Synonyms: customshouse |
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| customs | (noun) money collected under a tariff | Synonyms: custom, customs duty, impost |
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| customshouse | (noun) a government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country | Synonyms: customhouse |
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| cyclostome | (noun) primitive aquatic vertebrate | - |
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| cystocele | (noun) hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes through the wall of the vagina; sometimes occurs after childbirth | Synonyms: colpocystocele |
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| cystolith | (noun) a calculus formed in the bladder | Synonyms: bladder stone |
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| cystoparalysis | (noun) paralysis of the urinary bladder | Synonyms: cystoplegia |
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| cystoplegia | (noun) paralysis of the urinary bladder | Synonyms: cystoparalysis |
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| cytostome | (noun) mouth of a protozoan | - |
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| diastole | (noun) the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood | - |
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| diestock | (noun) a device that holds the dies that cut external threads on metal cylinders | - |
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| distomatosis | (noun) a disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products | Synonyms: black disease, liver rot, sheep rot |
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| distortion | (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting |
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| (noun) the mistake of misrepresenting the facts | - |
| (noun) a change for the worse | Synonyms: deformation |
| (noun) an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image | Synonyms: aberration, optical aberration |
| (noun) a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal) | - |
| (noun) a shape resulting from distortion | Synonyms: distorted shape |
| distortionist | (noun) a painter who introduces distortions | - |
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| doorstop | (noun) a stop that keeps open doors from moving | Synonyms: doorstopper |
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