| adjutant | (noun) large Indian stork with a military gait | Synonyms: adjutant bird, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius |
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| (noun) an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer | Synonyms: aide-de-camp, aide |
| amputation | (noun) a surgical removal of all or part of a limb | - |
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| (noun) a condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs | - |
| amputator | (noun) a surgeon who removes part or all of a limb | - |
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| autacoid | (noun) any physiologically active internal secretion especially one of uncertain classification | Synonyms: autocoid |
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| autarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autocracy |
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| (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarky |
| autarky | (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarchy |
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| barracouta | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: snoek |
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| brutalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalization |
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| (noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalization |
| (noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalization |
| brutality | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, savagery |
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| (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: ferociousness, savagery, viciousness |
| brutalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalisation |
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| (noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalisation |
| (noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalisation |
| butacaine | (noun) a white crystalline ester that is applied to mucous membranes as a local anesthetic | Synonyms: butacaine sulfate |
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| butadiene | (noun) a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; used in making synthetic rubbers | - |
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| butane | (noun) occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels | - |
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| butanol | (noun) a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents | Synonyms: butyl alcohol |
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| butanone | (noun) colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid | Synonyms: methyl ethyl ketone |
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| butat | (noun) 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi in Gambia | Synonyms: butut |
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| commutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: transmutability |
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| (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: replaceability, substitutability |
| commutation | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commuting |
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| (noun) (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law | Synonyms: re-sentencing |
| (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: exchange, substitution |
| (noun) a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one | - |
| commutator | (noun) switch for reversing the direction of an electric current | - |
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| computation | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: calculation, computing |
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| (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, figuring, reckoning |
| confutation | (noun) evidence that refutes conclusively | - |
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| (noun) the speech act of refuting conclusively | - |
| cutaway | (noun) a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees | - |
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| (noun) a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts | Synonyms: cutaway drawing, cutaway model |
| debutante | (noun) a young woman making her debut into society | Synonyms: deb |
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| deputation | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, delegation, relegating, relegation |
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| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, delegation, mission |
| dilutant | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: diluent, thinner |
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| disputant | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: controversialist, eristic |
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| disputation | (noun) the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) | Synonyms: debate, public debate |
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| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, tilt |
| disreputability | (noun) dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation | Synonyms: disreputableness, unrespectability |
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| disreputableness | (noun) dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation | Synonyms: disreputability, unrespectability |
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| distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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| edutainment | (noun) entertainment that is intended to be educational | - |
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| executability | (noun) capability of being executed | - |
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| executant | (noun) a performer (usually of musical works) | - |
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| glutamate | (noun) a salt or ester of glutamic acid | - |
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| glutamine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins; important in protein metabolism | - |
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| immutability | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutableness |
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| immutableness | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutability |
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| imputation | (noun) the attribution to a source or cause | - |
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| (noun) a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense) | - |
| incommutability | (noun) the quality of being not interchangeable | - |
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| indisputability | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indubitability, unquestionability, unquestionableness |
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| inscrutability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to investigate | - |
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| likuta | (noun) 100 makuta equal 1 zaire in Zaire | - |
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| lutanist | (noun) a musician who plays the lute | Synonyms: lutenist, lutist |
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| mutability | (noun) the quality of being capable of mutation | Synonyms: mutableness |
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| mutableness | (noun) the quality of being capable of mutation | Synonyms: mutability |
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| mutagen | (noun) any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation | - |
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| mutagenesis | (noun) an event capable of causing a mutation | - |
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| mutant | (noun) an animal that has undergone mutation | - |
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| (noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutation, sport, variation |
| mutation | (noun) (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism | Synonyms: chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation |
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| (noun) a change or alteration in form or qualities | - |
| (noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutant, sport, variation |
| nutation | (noun) uncontrolled nodding | - |
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| orangutan | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutang, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| orangutang | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| outage | (noun) a temporary suspension of operation (as of computers) | - |
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| (noun) the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation | - |
| oxyphenbutazone | (noun) an anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Tandearil) used to treat arthritis and bursitis | Synonyms: Tandearil |
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| permutability | (noun) ability to change sequence | Synonyms: permutableness, transposability |
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| permutableness | (noun) ability to change sequence | Synonyms: permutability, transposability |
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| permutation | (noun) complete change in character or condition | - |
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| (noun) the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements | - |
| (noun) act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group | - |
| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: replacement, substitution, switch, transposition |
| phenylbutazone | (noun) anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Butazolidin) | Synonyms: Butazolidin |
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| pollutant | (noun) waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil | - |
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| putamen | (noun) the outer reddish part of the lenticular nucleus | - |
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| rambutan | (noun) pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines | Synonyms: rambotan |
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| (noun) Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit | Synonyms: Nephelium lappaceum, rambotan, rambutan tree |
| refutal | (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsification, falsifying, refutation |
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| refutation | (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsification, falsifying, refutal |
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| (noun) any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something | Synonyms: disproof, falsification |
| (noun) the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | Synonyms: defence, defense |
| reputability | (noun) honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation | Synonyms: respectability |
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| reputation | (noun) the general estimation that the public has for a person | Synonyms: report |
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| (noun) the state of being held in high esteem and honor | Synonyms: repute |
| (noun) notoriety for some particular characteristic | - |
| rutabaga | (noun) the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food | Synonyms: swede, swedish turnip, yellow turnip |
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| (noun) a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root | Synonyms: Brassica napus napobrassica, rutabaga plant, swede, Swedish turnip, turnip cabbage |
| salutation | (noun) (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting) | Synonyms: greeting |
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| (noun) an act of honor or courteous recognition | Synonyms: salute |
| (noun) word of greeting used to begin a letter | - |
| salutatorian | (noun) a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises | Synonyms: salutatory speaker |
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| salutatory | (noun) an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises) | Synonyms: salutatory address, salutatory oration |
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| soutache | (noun) a narrow braid used as a decorative trimming | - |
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| soutane | (noun) a long cassock with buttons down the front; worn by Roman Catholic priests | - |
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| sternutation | (noun) a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose | Synonyms: sneeze, sneezing |
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| sternutator | (noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutatory |
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| sternutatory | (noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutator |
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| substitutability | (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: commutability, replaceability |
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| tolbutamide | (noun) sulfonylurea; an oral antidiabetic drug (trade name Orinase) used in the treatment of adult-onset diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: Orinase |
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| transmutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: commutability |
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| transmutation | (noun) an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | Synonyms: transubstantiation |
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| (noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: shift, transformation |
| (noun) (physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment) | - |
| tributary | (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, confluent, feeder |
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| utahraptor | (noun) large (20-ft) and swift carnivorous dinosaur having an upright slashing claw 15 inches long on each hind foot; early Cretaceous | Synonyms: superslasher |
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