| abaya | (noun) (Arabic) a loose black robe from head to toe; traditionally worn by Muslim women | - |
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| abeyance | (noun) temporary cessation or suspension | Synonyms: suspension |
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| acrocyanosis | (noun) cyanosis of the extremities; can occur when a spasm of the blood vessels is caused by exposure to cold or by strong emotion | Synonyms: Raynaud's sign |
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| aliyah | (noun) (Judaism) immigration of Jews to Israel | - |
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| (noun) (Judaism) the honor of being called up to the reading desk in the synagogue to read from the Torah | - |
| andryala | (noun) any plant of the genus Andryala having milky sap and heads of bright yellow flowers | - |
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| annoyance | (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoying, irritation, vexation |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: bother, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| (noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: chafe, vexation |
| (noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: aggravator |
| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: botheration, irritation, vexation |
| ayah | (noun) (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children | - |
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| ayapana | (noun) low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium | Synonyms: Ayapana triplinervis, Eupatorium aya-pana |
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| ayatollah | (noun) a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well | - |
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| backyard | (noun) the grounds in back of a house | - |
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| banyan | (noun) a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India | Synonyms: banian |
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| (noun) East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks | Synonyms: banian, banian tree, banyan tree, East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan |
| barnyard | (noun) a yard adjoining a barn | - |
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| baya | (noun) common Indian weaverbird | Synonyms: Ploceus philippinus |
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| bayat | (noun) an oath of allegiance to an emir | - |
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| bellyache | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: gastralgia, stomach ache, stomachache |
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| bellyacher | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| betrayal | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: perfidy, treachery, treason |
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| (noun) the quality of aiding an enemy | - |
| biryani | (noun) an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables | Synonyms: biriani |
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| boatyard | (noun) a place where boats are built or maintained or stored | - |
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| brickyard | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickfield |
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| bryanthus | (noun) procumbent Old World mat-forming evergreen shrub with racemes of pinkish-white flowers | - |
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| buckleya | (noun) parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits | Synonyms: Buckleya distichophylla |
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| bunyavirus | (noun) an animal virus belonging to the family Bunyaviridae; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| buoyancy | (noun) the property of something weightless and insubstantial | Synonyms: airiness |
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| (noun) irrepressible liveliness and good spirit | Synonyms: irrepressibility |
| (noun) the tendency to float in water or other liquid | - |
| (noun) cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface | Synonyms: perkiness |
| calisaya | (noun) Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark | Synonyms: Cinchona calisaya, Cinchona ledgeriana, Cinchona officinalis |
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| carryall | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: holdall, tote, tote bag |
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| caryatid | (noun) a supporting column carved in the shape of a person | - |
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| cattleya | (noun) any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a three-lobed lip enclosing the column; among the most popular and most extravagantly beautiful orchids known | - |
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| cherimoya | (noun) large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples | Synonyms: cherimolla |
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| (noun) small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit | Synonyms: Annona cherimola, cherimoya tree |
| churchyard | (noun) the yard associated with a church | Synonyms: God's acre |
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| clairvoyance | (noun) apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses | Synonyms: E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight |
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| clairvoyant | (noun) someone who has the power of clairvoyance | - |
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| cocoyam | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: dasheen, edda, taro, taro root |
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| (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: dasheen, eddo, taro |
| conveyance | (noun) act of transferring property title from one person to another | Synonyms: conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveying |
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| (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: transfer, transferral, transport, transportation |
| (noun) something that serves as a means of transportation | Synonyms: transport |
| (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: impartation, imparting |
| (noun) document effecting a property transfer | - |
| conveyancer | (noun) a lawyer who specializes in the business of conveying properties | - |
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| conveyancing | (noun) act of transferring property title from one person to another | Synonyms: conveyance, conveyance of title, conveying |
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| courtyard | (noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: court |
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| cryaesthesia | (noun) hypersensitivity to cold | Synonyms: cryesthesia |
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| cyan | (noun) a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color | - |
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| cyanamid | (noun) a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts) | Synonyms: cyanamide |
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| cyanamide | (noun) a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts) | Synonyms: cyanamid |
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| (noun) a compound used as a fertilizer and as a source of nitrogen compounds | Synonyms: calcium-cyanamide |
| cyanide | (noun) an extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid | - |
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| (noun) any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN | Synonyms: nitril, nitrile |
| cyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: kyanite |
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| cyanobacteria | (noun) predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplankton | Synonyms: blue-green algae |
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| cyanocobalamin | (noun) a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia | Synonyms: antipernicious anemia factor, cobalamin, vitamin B12 |
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| cyanogen | (noun) a colorless toxic gas with a pungent almond odor; has been used in chemical warfare | - |
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| cyanohydrin | (noun) any organic compound in which the cyano radical -CN and the hydroxyl radical -OH are attached to the same carbon atom | - |
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| cyanosis | (noun) a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes | - |
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| cyanuramide | (noun) a white crystalline organic base; used mainly in making melamine resins | Synonyms: melamine |
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| defrayal | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayment, payment |
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| deoxyadenosine | (noun) a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of adenosine and deoxyribose | - |
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| disloyalty | (noun) the quality of being disloyal | - |
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| dockyard | (noun) an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired | - |
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| dombeya | (noun) any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Dombeya grown for their rounded clusters of exquisite often sweet-scented flowers usually hanging beneath the leaves | - |
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| dooryard | (noun) a yard outside the front or rear door of a house | - |
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| dryad | (noun) a deity or nymph of the woods | Synonyms: wood nymph |
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| dyad | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
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| dyarchy | (noun) a form of government having two joint rulers | Synonyms: diarchy |
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| employable | (noun) a person who is qualified and ready to work | - |
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| enjoyableness | (noun) pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed | - |
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| eyas | (noun) an unfledged or nestling hawk | - |
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| farmyard | (noun) an area adjacent to farm buildings | - |
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| ferricyanide | (noun) salt of ferricyanic acid obtained by oxidation of a ferrocyanide | - |
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| ferrocyanide | (noun) salt of ferrocyanic acid usually obtained by a reaction of a cyanide with iron sulphate | - |
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| feryaz | (noun) a broad kaftan with long sleeves, worn by the nobility in Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries. | - |
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| flamboyance | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: floridity, floridness, showiness |
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| flamboyant | (noun) showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: Delonix regia, flame tree, peacock flower, Poinciana regia, royal poinciana |
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| foreyard | (noun) a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail. | Synonyms: fore-yard |
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| gayal | (noun) ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur | Synonyms: Bibos frontalis, mithan |
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| graveyard | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, memorial park, necropolis |
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| gulyas | (noun) a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika | Synonyms: goulash, Hungarian goulash |
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| halyard | (noun) a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag | Synonyms: halliard |
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| hamadryad | (noun) large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja | Synonyms: king cobra, Naja hannah, Ophiophagus hannah |
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| (noun) the nymph or spirit of a particular tree | - |
| hoya | (noun) any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers | - |
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| hyacinth | (noun) any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs | - |
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| (noun) a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone | Synonyms: jacinth |
| hyaena | (noun) doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion | Synonyms: hyena |
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| hyalin | (noun) a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions | Synonyms: hyaline |
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| hyaline | (noun) a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions | Synonyms: hyalin |
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| hyalinisation | (noun) the state of being hyaline or having become hyaline | Synonyms: hyalinization |
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| hyalinization | (noun) the state of being hyaline or having become hyaline | Synonyms: hyalinisation |
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| hyaloid | (noun) the transparent membrane enveloping the vitreous humor of the eye and separating it from the retina | Synonyms: hyaloid membrane |
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| hyaloplasm | (noun) the clear nongranular portion of the cytoplasm of a cell | Synonyms: ground substance |
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| hyaluronidase | (noun) an enzyme (trade name Hyazyme) that splits hyaluronic acid and so lowers its viscosity and increases the permeability of connective tissue and the absorption of fluids | Synonyms: Hyazyme, spreading factor |
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| hyoscyamine | (noun) a poisonous crystalline alkaloid (isometric with atropine but more potent); used to treat excess motility of the gastrointestinal tract | - |
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| isocyanate | (noun) a salt or ester of isocyanic acid | - |
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| isothiocyanate | (noun) a family of compounds derived from horseradish and radishes and onions and mustards; source of the hotness of those plants and preparations | - |
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| jambalaya | (noun) spicy Creole dish of rice and ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and celery | - |
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| junkyard | (noun) a field where junk is collected and stored for resale | - |
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| kayak | (noun) a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos | - |
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| keratohyalin | (noun) hyaline in the large granules of the stratum granulosum | - |
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| kyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: cyanite |
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| kyat | (noun) the basic unit of money in Myanmar | - |
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| lanyard | (noun) (nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships | Synonyms: laniard |
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| (noun) a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle | Synonyms: laniard |
| (noun) a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon | Synonyms: laniard |
| layabout | (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, idler, loafer |
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| loyalist | (noun) a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt) | Synonyms: stalwart |
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| loyalty | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, commitment, dedication |
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| (noun) the quality of being loyal | Synonyms: trueness |
| (noun) feelings of allegiance | - |
| lumberyard | (noun) a workplace where lumber is stocked for sale | - |
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| mayapple | (noun) North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit | Synonyms: May apple, Podophyllum peltatum, wild mandrake |
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| minyan | (noun) the quorum required by Jewish law to be present for public worship (at least ten males over thirteen years of age) | - |
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| myalgia | (noun) pain in a muscle or group of muscles | Synonyms: myodynia |
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