| adjudication | (noun) the final judgment in a legal proceeding; the act of pronouncing judgment based on the evidence presented | - |
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| adjudicator | (noun) a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes | - |
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| altitude | (noun) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface | Synonyms: height |
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| (noun) angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | Synonyms: ALT, EL, elevation |
| (noun) the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel) | - |
| amplitude | (noun) greatness of magnitude | - |
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| (noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: bountifulness, bounty |
| (noun) (physics) the maximum displacement of a periodic wave | - |
| aoudad | (noun) wild sheep of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ammotragus lervia, arui, audad, Barbary sheep, maned sheep |
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| applauder | (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: clapper |
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| aptitude | (noun) inherent ability | - |
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| attitude | (noun) a theatrical pose created for effect | - |
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| (noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: position, posture |
| (noun) a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways | Synonyms: mental attitude |
| (noun) position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion) | - |
| audaciousness | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audacity, temerity |
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| (noun) aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery | Synonyms: audacity |
| audacity | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audaciousness, temerity |
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| (noun) aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery | Synonyms: audaciousness |
| audad | (noun) wild sheep of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ammotragus lervia, aoudad, arui, Barbary sheep, maned sheep |
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| audibility | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibleness |
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| audible | (noun) a football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage | - |
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| audibleness | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibility |
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| audience | (noun) a conference (usually with someone important) | Synonyms: consultation, interview |
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| (noun) a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance | - |
| (noun) the part of the general public interested in a source of information, entertainment, or a product/service | - |
| (noun) an opportunity to state your case and be heard | Synonyms: hearing |
| audile | (noun) one whose mental imagery is auditory rather than visual or motor | - |
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| audio | (noun) the sound elements of television | - |
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| (noun) a recording of acoustic signals | Synonyms: audio recording, sound recording |
| (noun) an audible acoustic wave frequency | Synonyms: audio frequency |
| (noun) the audible part of a transmitted signal | Synonyms: sound |
| audiocassette | (noun) a cassette for audiotape | - |
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| audiogram | (noun) a graphical representation of a person's auditory sensitivity to sound | - |
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| audiology | (noun) the measurement of hearing | Synonyms: audiometry |
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| audiometer | (noun) an instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing | Synonyms: sonometer |
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| audiometry | (noun) measuring sensitivity of hearing | - |
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| (noun) the measurement of hearing | Synonyms: audiology |
| audiotape | (noun) magnetic tape for use in recording sound | - |
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| (noun) a tape recording of sound | - |
| audiovisual | (noun) materials using sight or sound to present information | Synonyms: audiovisual aid |
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| audit | (noun) a methodical examination or review of a condition or situation | - |
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| (noun) an inspection of the accounting procedures and records by a trained accountant or CPA | Synonyms: audited account |
| audition | (noun) a test of the suitability of a performer | Synonyms: tryout |
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| (noun) the ability to hear; the auditory faculty | Synonyms: auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing |
| auditor | (noun) a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization | - |
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| (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, hearer, listener |
| (noun) a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit | - |
| auditorium | (noun) the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits | - |
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| barracuda | (noun) any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth | - |
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| baud | (noun) (computer science) a data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems | Synonyms: baud rate |
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| beatitude | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, blessedness |
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| befuddlement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| bludgeon | (noun) a club used as a weapon | - |
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| bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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| boudoir | (noun) a lady's bedroom or private sitting room | - |
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| bud | (noun) a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals | - |
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| (noun) a partially opened flower | - |
| budding | (noun) reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent | - |
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| buddleia | (noun) tropical shrub having clusters of white or violet or yellow flowers | Synonyms: butterfly bush |
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| buddy | (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekick |
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| budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgerigar | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgerygah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budget | (noun) a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose | - |
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| (noun) a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them | - |
| budgie | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| cauda | (noun) any taillike structure | - |
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| caudate | (noun) amphibians that resemble lizards | Synonyms: urodele |
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| (noun) a tail-shaped basal ganglion located in a lateral ventricle of the brain | Synonyms: caudate nucleus |
| caudex | (noun) woody stem of palms and tree ferns | - |
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| (noun) persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant | Synonyms: stock |
| certitude | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: cocksureness, overconfidence |
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| chuddar | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chadar, chaddar, chador |
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| claudication | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: gameness, gimp, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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| cloud | (noun) a group of many things in the air or on the ground | Synonyms: swarm |
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| (noun) a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude | - |
| (noun) any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible | - |
| (noun) suspicion affecting your reputation | - |
| (noun) out of touch with reality | - |
| (noun) a cause of worry or gloom or trouble | - |
| cloudberry | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: bakeapple, baked-apple berry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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| cloudburst | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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| cloudiness | (noun) the quality of being cloudy | Synonyms: muddiness, murkiness |
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| (noun) the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds | Synonyms: cloud cover, overcast |
| (noun) gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover | Synonyms: overcast |
| clouding | (noun) the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky | Synonyms: clouding up |
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| cloudlessness | (noun) the lightness of a sunny day when there are no clouds in the sky | - |
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| consuetude | (noun) a custom or usage that has acquired the force of law | - |
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| consuetudinal | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinary |
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| consuetudinary | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinal |
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| correctitude | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: properness, propriety |
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| crapaud | (noun) large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog | Synonyms: Leptodactylus pentadactylus, South American bullfrog |
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| crassitude | (noun) the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement | Synonyms: crassness |
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| crud | (noun) an ill-defined bodily ailment | - |
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| (noun) any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant | Synonyms: filth, skank |
| (noun) heavy wet snow that is unsuitable for skiing | - |
| crude | (noun) a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: crude oil, fossil oil, oil, petroleum, rock oil |
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| crudeness | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudity, gaucheness |
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| (noun) an unpolished unrefined quality | Synonyms: roughness |
| (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness |
| crudites | (noun) raw vegetables cut into bite-sized strips and served with a dip | - |
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| crudity | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudeness, gaucheness |
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| (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness |
| cud | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, chew, plug, quid, wad |
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| (noun) food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again | Synonyms: rechewed food |
| cudbear | (noun) a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens | Synonyms: archil, orchil |
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| cuddle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: nestle, snuggle |
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| cuddling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| cuddy | (noun) the galley or pantry of a small ship | - |
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| cudgel | (noun) a club that is used as a weapon | - |
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| cudweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | - |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, filago |
| (noun) perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States | Synonyms: Artemisia gnaphalodes, Artemisia ludoviciana, prairie sage, western mugwort, white sage |
| curmudgeon | (noun) a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas | - |
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| decrepitude | (noun) a state of deterioration due to old age or long use | Synonyms: dilapidation |
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| (noun) The quality or state of being wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age. | - |
| defrauder | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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| denudation | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, husking, stripping, uncovering |
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| desuetude | (noun) a state of inactivity or disuse | - |
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| disquietude | (noun) feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable | Synonyms: edginess, inquietude, uneasiness |
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| dissimilitude | (noun) dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness | Synonyms: unlikeness |
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| docudrama | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: documentary, documentary film, infotainment |
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| drudge | (noun) a laborer who is obliged to do menial work | Synonyms: galley slave, navvy, peon |
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| (noun) one who works hard at boring tasks | Synonyms: hack, hacker |
| drudgery | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, grind, plodding |
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| dud | (noun) an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | Synonyms: bomb, turkey |
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| (noun) an explosion that fails to occur | Synonyms: misfire |
| (noun) someone who is unsuccessful | Synonyms: flop, washout |
| dude | (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
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| (noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: buster, fellow |
| dudeen | (noun) a clay pipe with a short stem | - |
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| dudgeon | (noun) a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon') | Synonyms: high dudgeon |
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| duds | (noun) informal terms for clothing | Synonyms: threads, togs |
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| eluding | (noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: elusion, slip |
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| eruditeness | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| erudition | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| escudo | (noun) the basic unit of money on Cape Verde; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: Cape Verde escudo |
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| (noun) formerly the basic monetary unit of Portugal; equal to 100 centavo | Synonyms: Portuguese escudo |
| etude | (noun) a short composition for a solo instrument; intended as an exercise or to demonstrate technical virtuosity | - |
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| eudaemon | (noun) a benevolent spirit | Synonyms: eudemon, good spirit |
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| eudaemonia | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaimonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |
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| eudaimonia | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |
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| eudemon | (noun) a benevolent spirit | Synonyms: eudaemon, good spirit |
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| eudemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: endaemonism |
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| eudiometer | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube for measuring volume changes in chemical reactions between gases | - |
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