| administrator | (noun) someone who administers a business | Synonyms: decision maker |
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| (noun) the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor | - |
| (noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: executive |
| administrivia | (noun) the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization | - |
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| admirability | (noun) admirable excellence | Synonyms: admirableness, wonderfulness |
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| admiralty | (noun) the office of admiral | - |
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| (noun) the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain) | - |
| admiration | (noun) a favorable judgment | Synonyms: appreciation |
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| (noun) a feeling of delighted approval and liking | Synonyms: esteem |
| (noun) the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising | Synonyms: wonder, wonderment |
| admissibility | (noun) acceptability by virtue of being admissible | - |
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| admittance | (noun) the act of admitting someone to enter | Synonyms: admission |
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| (noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: access, accession, admission, entree |
| admixture | (noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: commixture, intermixture, mix, mixing, mixture |
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| (noun) an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base | Synonyms: intermixture |
| (noun) the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something | Synonyms: alloy |
| admonishment | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonition, monition |
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| admonition | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonishment, monition |
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| (noun) cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness) | Synonyms: monition, warning, word of advice |
| adolescent | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: stripling, teen, teenager |
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| adoptee | (noun) someone (such as a child) who has been adopted | - |
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| adopter | (noun) a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child | Synonyms: adoptive parent |
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| adoption | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptance, acceptation, espousal |
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| (noun) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | Synonyms: borrowing |
| (noun) a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit) | - |
| adorability | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorableness |
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| adoration | (noun) the act of admiring strongly | Synonyms: idolisation, idolization |
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| (noun) the worship given to God alone | Synonyms: latria |
| (noun) a feeling of profound love and admiration | Synonyms: worship |
| adornment | (noun) the action of decorating yourself with something colorful and interesting | - |
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| (noun) a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness | - |
| adrenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: suprarenalectomy |
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| adrenocorticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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| adrenocorticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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| adrenosterone | (noun) a steroid having androgenic activity; obtained from the cortex of the adrenal gland | - |
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| adroitness | (noun) skillful performance or ability without difficulty | Synonyms: adeptness, deftness, facility, quickness |
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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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| 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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| adulation | (noun) servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise | - |
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| adulator | (noun) a person who uses flattery | Synonyms: flatterer |
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| adult | (noun) any mature animal | - |
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| (noun) a fully developed person from maturity onward | Synonyms: grownup |
| adulterant | (noun) any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | Synonyms: adulterator |
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| adulteration | (noun) the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another) | - |
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| (noun) being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating | Synonyms: debasement |
| adulterator | (noun) a changer who lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | - |
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| (noun) any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | Synonyms: adulterant |
| adulterer | (noun) someone who commits adultery or fornication | Synonyms: fornicator |
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| adulteress | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
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| adulterousness | (noun) The quality of being adulterous, involving sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. | - |
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| adultery | (noun) extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations | Synonyms: criminal conversation, fornication |
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| adulthood | (noun) the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity | - |
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| (noun) the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed | Synonyms: maturity |
| adulting | (noun) acting like an adult | - |
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| adumbration | (noun) a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation | - |
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| (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefiguration |
| advancement | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression |
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| (noun) gradual improvement or growth or development | Synonyms: progress |
| (noun) encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something | Synonyms: furtherance, promotion |
| advantage | (noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position | Synonyms: vantage |
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| (noun) benefit resulting from some event or action | Synonyms: reward |
| (noun) (tennis) first point scored after deuce | - |
| advantageousness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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| advection | (noun) (meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties | - |
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| advent | (noun) arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous) | Synonyms: coming |
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| adventitia | (noun) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue | Synonyms: tunic, tunica |
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| adventure | (noun) a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) | Synonyms: dangerous undertaking, escapade, risky venture |
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| adventurer | (noun) a person who enjoys taking risks | Synonyms: venturer |
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| (noun) someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) | Synonyms: explorer |
| adventuress | (noun) a woman adventurer | - |
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| adventurism | (noun) recklessness in politics or foreign affairs | - |
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| adventurousness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: venturesomeness |
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| adversity | (noun) a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event | - |
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| (noun) a state of misfortune or affliction | Synonyms: hard knocks, hardship |
| advert | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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| advertence | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertency |
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| advertency | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertence |
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| advertisement | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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| advertiser | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: adman, advertizer |
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| advertising | (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: merchandising, publicizing |
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| (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertizement, advertizing |
| advertizement | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizing |
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| advertizer | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: adman, advertiser |
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| advertizing | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizement |
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| advertorial | (noun) an advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report | - |
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| advisability | (noun) the quality of being advisable | - |
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| advisement | (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: deliberation, weighing |
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| advocate | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocator, exponent, proponent |
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| (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
| advocator | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, exponent, proponent |
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| aeration | (noun) the act of charging a liquid with a gas making it effervescent | - |
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| (noun) the process of exposing to air (so as to purify) | - |
| aerator | (noun) an apparatus for exposing something to the air (as sewage) | - |
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| aerialist | (noun) an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze) | - |
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| aerobatics | (noun) the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft | Synonyms: acrobatics, stunt flying, stunting |
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| aerodontalgia | (noun) pain in the teeth that results from a change in air pressure (as in flying or mountain climbing) | - |
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| aerogenerator | (noun) generator that extracts usable energy from winds | Synonyms: wind generator, windmill |
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| aerolite | (noun) a stony meteorite consisting of silicate minerals | - |
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| aeronaut | (noun) someone who operates an aircraft | Synonyms: aviator, flier, flyer |
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| aeronautics | (noun) the theory and practice of navigation through air or space | Synonyms: astronautics |
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| aerophilately | (noun) the collection and study of airmail stamps | - |
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| aerophyte | (noun) plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it | Synonyms: air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant |
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| aeschynanthus | (noun) a plant of the genus Aeschynanthus having somewhat red or orange flowers and seeds having distinctive hairs at base and apex | - |
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| aesthesia | (noun) mental responsiveness and awareness | Synonyms: esthesia, sensibility |
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| aesthesis | (noun) an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation | Synonyms: esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression |
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| aesthete | (noun) one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature | Synonyms: esthete |
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| aesthetic | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful | Synonyms: esthetic |
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| aesthetician | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty | Synonyms: esthetician |
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| (noun) a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.) | Synonyms: esthetician |
| aesthetics | (noun) (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art) | Synonyms: esthetics |
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| aestivation | (noun) (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens | Synonyms: estivation |
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| (noun) (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period | Synonyms: estivation |
| aether | (noun) a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves | Synonyms: ether |
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| aetiologist | (noun) a specialist in the etiology of diseases | Synonyms: etiologist |
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| aetiology | (noun) the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: etiology |
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| (noun) the cause of a disease | Synonyms: etiology |
| affability | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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| affect | (noun) the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion | - |
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| affectation | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectedness, mannerism, pose |
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| affectedness | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, mannerism, pose |
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| (noun) the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | - |
| affection | (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
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| affectionateness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: fondness, lovingness, warmth |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
| 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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| affiant | (noun) a person who makes an affidavit | - |
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| affidavit | (noun) written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath | - |
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| affiliate | (noun) a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization | - |
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| (noun) a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization | - |
| affiliation | (noun) the act of becoming formally connected or joined | - |
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| (noun) a social or business relationship | Synonyms: association, tie-up, tie |
| affinity | (noun) inherent resemblance between persons or things | - |
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| (noun) a natural attraction or feeling of kinship | - |
| (noun) the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule | Synonyms: chemical attraction |
| (noun) (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody | - |
| (noun) (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship | - |
| (noun) (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts | Synonyms: phylogenetic relation |
| (noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: kinship |
| affirmation | (noun) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand | - |
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| (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: avouchment, avowal |
| (noun) (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds) | - |
| (noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: assertion, statement |
| affirmative | (noun) a reply of affirmation | - |
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