| accentuation | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, emphasizing |
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| (noun) the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance | - |
| accrual | (noun) the act of accumulating | Synonyms: accruement, accumulation |
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| acquaintance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: conversance, conversancy, familiarity |
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| (noun) a person with whom you are acquainted | Synonyms: friend |
| (noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintanceship |
| acquaintanceship | (noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintance |
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| actualisation | (noun) making real or giving the appearance of reality | Synonyms: actualization, realisation, realization |
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| actuality | (noun) the state of actually existing objectively | - |
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| actualization | (noun) making real or giving the appearance of reality | Synonyms: actualisation, realisation, realization |
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| actuary | (noun) someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) | Synonyms: statistician |
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| actuation | (noun) the act of propelling | Synonyms: propulsion |
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| actuator | (noun) a mechanism that puts something into automatic action | - |
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| adequacy | (noun) the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: | Synonyms: adequateness |
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| (noun) the quality of being sufficient for the end in view | Synonyms: sufficiency |
| adequateness | (noun) the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: | Synonyms: adequacy |
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| agua | (noun) largest known toad species; native to Central America; valuable destroyer of insect pests | Synonyms: agua toad, Bufo marinus |
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| aguacate | (noun) a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed | Synonyms: alligator pear, avocado, avocado pear |
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| aliquant | (noun) an integer that is not an exact divisor of some quantity | Synonyms: aliquant part |
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| annual | (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: yearbook, yearly |
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| (noun) (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year | - |
| annualry | (noun) the third finger (especially of the left hand) | Synonyms: ring finger |
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| antiquarian | (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquary, archaist |
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| antiquark | (noun) the antiparticle of a quark | - |
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| antiquary | (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquarian, archaist |
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| antiquatedness | (noun) The state or quality of being outmoded or discredited by reason of age, of being out of style or fashion. | - |
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| aqua | (noun) a shade of blue tinged with green | Synonyms: aquamarine, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, turquoise |
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| aquaculture | (noun) rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food | - |
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| aqualung | (noun) a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus | Synonyms: Aqua-Lung, scuba |
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| aquamarine | (noun) a shade of blue tinged with green | Synonyms: aqua, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, turquoise |
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| (noun) a transparent variety of beryl that is blue green in color | - |
| aquanaut | (noun) an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder | Synonyms: skin-diver |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research | Synonyms: oceanaut |
| aquaphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of drowning | - |
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| aquaplane | (noun) a board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water | - |
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| aquarium | (noun) a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals | Synonyms: fish tank, marine museum |
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| aquatic | (noun) a plant that lives in or on water | - |
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| aquatics | (noun) sports that involve bodies of water | Synonyms: water sport |
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| aquatint | (noun) a method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color | - |
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| (noun) an etching made by a process that makes it resemble a water color | - |
| aquavit | (noun) Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds | Synonyms: akvavit |
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| armguard | (noun) a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports | Synonyms: bracer |
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| asexuality | (noun) having no evident sex or sex organs | Synonyms: sexlessness |
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| assuagement | (noun) the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced | Synonyms: alleviation, relief |
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| attenuation | (noun) the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density | - |
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| (noun) weakening in force or intensity | Synonyms: fading |
| attenuator | (noun) an electrical device for attenuating the strength of an electrical signal | - |
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| audiovisual | (noun) materials using sight or sound to present information | Synonyms: audiovisual aid |
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| bilingual | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingualist |
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| bilingualism | (noun) the ability to speak two languages colloquially | - |
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| bilingualist | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingual |
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| biquadrate | (noun) an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadratic, fourth power, quartic |
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| biquadratic | (noun) a polynomial of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadratic polynomial, quartic polynomial |
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| (noun) an equation of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadratic equation |
| (noun) an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadrate, fourth power, quartic |
| bisexual | (noun) a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes | Synonyms: bisexual person |
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| bisexuality | (noun) sexual activity with both men and women | - |
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| (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, hermaphroditism |
| bivouac | (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: camp, cantonment, encampment |
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| (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
| bivouacking | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: camping, encampment, tenting |
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| blackguard | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: bounder, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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| bodyguard | (noun) a group of men who escort and protect some important person | - |
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| (noun) someone who escorts and protects a prominent person | Synonyms: escort |
| casualness | (noun) a casual manner | Synonyms: familiarity |
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| (noun) The state of coming without regularity; of being occasional or incidental. | - |
| casualty | (noun) a decrease of military personnel or equipment | - |
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| (noun) an accident that causes someone to die | Synonyms: fatal accident |
| (noun) someone injured or killed in an accident | Synonyms: injured party |
| (noun) someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement | - |
| casuarina | (noun) any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves; some yield heavy hardwood | - |
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| chinquapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chincapin, chinkapin |
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| (noun) shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts | Synonyms: Allegheny chinkapin, Castanea pumila, dwarf chestnut, eastern chinquapin |
| (noun) shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States | Synonyms: Castanea ozarkensis, Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin |
| coastguard | (noun) a military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters | - |
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| coastguardsman | (noun) a member of a coastguard | - |
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| conceptualisation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualization, formulation |
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| (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptuality, conceptualization |
| conceptualism | (noun) the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application | - |
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| conceptuality | (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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| conceptualization | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, formulation |
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| (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptuality |
| construal | (noun) an interpretation of the meaning of something; the act of construing | - |
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| contextualism | (noun) any doctrine emphasizing the importance of the context in solving problems or establishing the meaning of terms | - |
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| continuance | (noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption | Synonyms: continuation |
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| (noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: duration |
| (noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: duration |
| continuant | (noun) consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract | Synonyms: continuant consonant |
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| continuation | (noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption | Synonyms: continuance |
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| (noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration | Synonyms: lengthiness, prolongation, protraction |
| (noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction | Synonyms: good continuation, law of continuation |
| (noun) a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it | Synonyms: sequel |
| continuative | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, connective |
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| counterfactuality | (noun) the quality of being contrary to fact | - |
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| cumquat | (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp | Synonyms: kumquat, kumquat tree |
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| decidua | (noun) the epithelial tissue of the endometrium | - |
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| demisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | Synonyms: thirty-second note |
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| deoxyguanosine | (noun) a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of guanine and deoxyribose | Synonyms: guanosine |
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| desquamation | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: peeling, shedding |
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| devaluation | (noun) the reduction of something's value or worth | - |
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| (noun) an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries | - |
| diddlysquat | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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| disambiguation | (noun) clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity | - |
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| disambiguator | (noun) (computer science) a natural language processing application that tries to determine the intended meaning of a word or phrase by examining the linguistic context in which it is used | - |
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| discontinuance | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuation |
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| discontinuation | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuance |
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| disqualification | (noun) the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified | - |
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| (noun) unfitness that bars you from participation | - |
| dissuasion | (noun) persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action | - |
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| (noun) a communication that dissuades you | - |
| duad | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
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| dualism | (noun) the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil | - |
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| dualist | (noun) an adherent of dualism | - |
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| duality | (noun) (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory | Synonyms: wave-particle duality |
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| (noun) (geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry | - |
| (noun) being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses | Synonyms: dichotomy |
| earthquake | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: quake, seism, temblor |
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| (noun) a disturbance that is extremely disruptive | - |
| effectuality | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectivity, effectualness |
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| effectualness | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectivity, effectuality |
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| effectuation | (noun) the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect | Synonyms: implementation |
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| eluate | (noun) a liquid solution that results from elution | - |
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| equal | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: compeer, match, peer |
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| equalisation | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalization, leveling |
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| equaliser | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equalizer |
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| (noun) electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion | Synonyms: equalizer |
| equalitarian | (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: egalitarian |
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| equalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: egalitarianism |
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| equality | (noun) the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status | - |
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| (noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equation, equivalence, par |
| equalization | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, leveling |
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| equalizer | (noun) a score that makes the match even | - |
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| (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser |
| (noun) electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion | Synonyms: equaliser |
| equanimity | (noun) steadiness of mind under stress | Synonyms: calm, calmness, composure |
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| equatability | (noun) capability of being equated | - |
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| equating | (noun) the act of regarding as equal | Synonyms: equation |
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