| antipsychotic | (noun) tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired | Synonyms: antipsychotic agent, antipsychotic drug, major tranquilizer, major tranquilliser, major tranquillizer, neuroleptic, neuroleptic agent, neuroleptic drug |
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| antisyphilitic | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that is effective against syphilis | - |
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| apostasy | (noun) the act of abandoning a party for cause | Synonyms: tergiversation |
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| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: defection, renunciation |
| argosy | (noun) one or more large merchant ships | - |
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| asylum | (noun) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | Synonyms: insane asylum, institution, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital |
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| (noun) a shelter from danger or hardship | Synonyms: refuge, sanctuary |
| asymmetry | (noun) (mathematics) a lack of symmetry | - |
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| asymptote | (noun) a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity | - |
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| asynchronism | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| asynchrony | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| asynclitism | (noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| asyndeton | (noun) the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used | - |
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| asynergia | (noun) absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously | Synonyms: asynergy |
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| asynergy | (noun) absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously | Synonyms: asynergia |
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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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| autopsy | (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: necropsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination |
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| biopsy | (noun) examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease | - |
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| biosynthesis | (noun) production of a chemical compound by a living organism | Synonyms: biogenesis |
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| biosystematics | (noun) use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework | Synonyms: biosystematy |
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| biosystematy | (noun) use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework | Synonyms: biosystematics |
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| busybody | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: nosey-parker, nosy-parker, quidnunc |
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| busyness | (noun) the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity | Synonyms: hum |
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| busywork | (noun) active work of little value | Synonyms: make-work |
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| catalepsy | (noun) a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli | - |
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| chemosynthesis | (noun) synthesis of carbohydrate from carbon dioxide and water; limited to certain bacteria and fungi | - |
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| clepsydra | (noun) clock that measures time by the escape of water | Synonyms: water clock, water glass |
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| clerisy | (noun) an educated and intellectual elite | Synonyms: intelligentsia |
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| controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| cosy | (noun) a padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm | Synonyms: cozy, tea cosy, tea cozy |
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| courtesy | (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate act | - |
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| (noun) a courteous manner | Synonyms: good manners |
| (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate remark | - |
| curtsy | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsey |
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| daisy | (noun) any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl | - |
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| daisybush | (noun) any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays | Synonyms: daisy-bush, daisy bush |
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| dasymeter | (noun) densimeter consisting of a thin glass globe that is weighed in a gas to determine its density | - |
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| dasyure | (noun) any of several more or less arboreal marsupials somewhat resembling martens | - |
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| dasyurid | (noun) small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania | Synonyms: dasyurid marsupial |
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| decasyllable | (noun) a verse line having ten syllables | - |
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| desynchronisation | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| desynchronization | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronizing |
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| desynchronizing | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization |
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| dichromasy | (noun) a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision) | Synonyms: dichromacy, dichromatism, dichromatopsia, dichromia |
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| discourtesy | (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: offence, offense, offensive activity |
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| (noun) a manner that is rude and insulting | Synonyms: rudeness |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: disrespect |
| dissyllable | (noun) a word having two syllables | Synonyms: disyllable |
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| dissymmetry | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, imbalance |
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| disyllable | (noun) a word having two syllables | Synonyms: dissyllable |
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| dropsy | (noun) swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities | Synonyms: edema, hydrops, oedema |
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| dyssynergia | (noun) inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait | Synonyms: ataxia, ataxy, motor ataxia |
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| easygoingness | (noun) being without worry or concern | - |
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| ecosystem | (noun) a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment | - |
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| ecstasy | (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, cristal, disco biscuit, go, hug drug, X, XTC |
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| (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: exaltation, rapture, raptus, transport |
| (noun) a state of elated bliss | Synonyms: rapture |
| embassy | (noun) a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work | - |
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| (noun) an ambassador and his entourage collectively | - |
| epilepsy | (noun) a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions | - |
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| extrasystole | (noun) a premature systole resulting in a momentary cardiac arrhythmia | - |
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| fantasy | (noun) imagination unrestricted by reality | Synonyms: phantasy |
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| (noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, illusion, phantasy |
| (noun) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it | Synonyms: phantasy |
| flimsy | (noun) a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies | Synonyms: onionskin |
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| flindosy | (noun) tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc | Synonyms: Flindersia australis, flindosa, native beech |
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| forsythia | (noun) any of various early blooming oleaceous shrubs of the genus Forsythia; native to eastern Asia and southern Europe but widely cultivated for their branches of bright yellow bell-shaped flowers | - |
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| geodesy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the shape of the earth and the determination of the exact position of geographical points | - |
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| gipsy | (noun) a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment | Synonyms: gypsy, itinerant |
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| (noun) a person who resembles a Romani in leading an unconventional, nomadic way of life | Synonyms: gypsy |
| gipsywort | (noun) hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers | Synonyms: gypsywort, Lycopus europaeus |
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| glossy | (noun) a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper | - |
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| (noun) a magazine printed on good quality paper | Synonyms: slick, slick magazine |
| gypsy | (noun) a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment | Synonyms: gipsy, itinerant |
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| (noun) a person who resembles a Romani in leading an unconventional, nomadic way of life | Synonyms: gipsy |
| gypsyweed | (noun) common hairy European perennial with pale blue or lilac flowers in axillary racemes | Synonyms: common speedwell, Veronica officinalis |
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| gypsywort | (noun) hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers | Synonyms: gipsywort, Lycopus europaeus |
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| heptasyllable | (noun) a word or line of verse of seven syllables. | - |
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| heresy | (noun) a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion | Synonyms: unorthodoxy |
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| (noun) any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position | Synonyms: heterodoxy, unorthodoxy |
| hussy | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
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| (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: ho, hoe, slut, trollop |
| hypocrisy | (noun) insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have | - |
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| (noun) an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction | Synonyms: lip service |
| hysterocatalepsy | (noun) hysteria with cataleptic symptoms | - |
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| idiosyncrasy | (noun) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual | Synonyms: foible, mannerism |
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| isostasy | (noun) (geology) a general equilibrium of the forces tending to elevate or depress the earth's crust | - |
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| isosyllabism | (noun) (linguistics, poetry) the use of isosyllabic verse. | - |
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| jealousy | (noun) zealous vigilance | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival) | Synonyms: green-eyed monster |
| langsyne | (noun) past times remembered with nostalgia | Synonyms: auld langsyne, good old days, lang syne, old times |
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| leprosy | (noun) chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae | Synonyms: Hansen's disease |
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| matsyendra | (noun) (Hinduism) a religious posture | - |
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| metempsychosis | (noun) after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body | Synonyms: rebirth |
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| minstrelsy | (noun) the art of a minstrel | - |
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| (noun) ballads sung by minstrels | - |
| (noun) a troupe of minstrels | - |
| missy | (noun) a young female | Synonyms: fille, girl, miss, young lady, young woman |
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| monochromasy | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism, monochromia |
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| monosyllable | (noun) a word or utterance of one syllable | Synonyms: monosyllabic word |
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| narcolepsy | (noun) a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep | - |
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| necropsy | (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: autopsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination |
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| neuropsychiatry | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system | - |
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| neuropsychology | (noun) the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes | Synonyms: physiological psychology, psychophysiology |
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| neurosyphilis | (noun) syphilis of the central nervous system | - |
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| nucleosynthesis | (noun) (astronomy) the cosmic synthesis of atoms more complex than the hydrogen atom | - |
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| nympholepsy | (noun) a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable | - |
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| octosyllable | (noun) a verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines | - |
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| palsy | (noun) loss of the ability to move a body part | Synonyms: paralysis |
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| (noun) a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor | - |
| pansy | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
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| (noun) a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive | Synonyms: milksop, Milquetoast, pantywaist, sissy |
| (noun) large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors | Synonyms: Viola tricolor hortensis |
| parapsychologist | (noun) someone who studies the evidence for such psychological phenomena as psychokinesis and telepathy and clairvoyance | - |
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| parapsychology | (noun) phenomena that appear to contradict physical laws and suggest the possibility of causation by mental processes | Synonyms: psychic phenomena, psychic phenomenon |
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| parasympathetic | (noun) originates in the brain stem and lower part of the spinal cord; opposes physiological effects of the sympathetic nervous system: stimulates digestive secretions; slows the heart; constricts the pupils; dilates blood vessels | Synonyms: parasympathetic nervous system |
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| patsy | (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, soft touch, sucker |
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| phantasy | (noun) imagination unrestricted by reality | Synonyms: fantasy |
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| (noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, fantasy, illusion |
| (noun) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it | Synonyms: fantasy |
| photosynthesis | (noun) synthesis of compounds with the aid of radiant energy (especially in plants) | - |
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| pleurisy | (noun) inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer) | - |
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| poesy | (noun) literature in metrical form | Synonyms: poetry, verse |
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| polysyllable | (noun) a word of more than three syllables | Synonyms: polysyllabic word |
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| polysyndeton | (noun) using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy') | - |
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