| abhorrence | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abomination, detestation, execration, loathing, odium |
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| abience | (noun) (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object | - |
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| absence | (noun) failure to be present | - |
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| (noun) the state of being absent | - |
| (noun) the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy | Synonyms: absence seizure |
| (noun) the time interval during which something or somebody is away | - |
| abstinence | (noun) act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite | - |
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| (noun) the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | Synonyms: abstention |
| accidence | (noun) the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words | Synonyms: inflectional morphology |
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| acquiescence | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: assent |
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| (noun) acceptance without protest | - |
| adherence | (noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adhesion, attachment |
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| (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adhesion, adhesiveness, bond |
| adience | (noun) (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object | - |
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| adolescence | (noun) in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood | - |
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| (noun) the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood | - |
| advertence | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertency |
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| affluence | (noun) abundant wealth | Synonyms: richness |
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| ambience | (noun) the atmosphere of an environment | Synonyms: ambiance |
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| (noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambiance, atmosphere |
| ambivalence | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalency |
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| antecedence | (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency, priority |
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| appetence | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetency, appetite |
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| ascendence | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| astringence | (noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringency |
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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 |
| autofluorescence | (noun) self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
| beneficence | (noun) the quality of being kind or helpful or generous | - |
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| (noun) doing good; feeling beneficent | - |
| benevolence | (noun) an act intending or showing kindness and good will | Synonyms: benefaction |
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| (noun) an inclination to do kind or charitable acts | - |
| (noun) disposition to do good | - |
| biodefence | (noun) procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents | Synonyms: biodefense, biological defence, biological defense |
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| bioluminescence | (noun) luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly) | - |
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| bioscience | (noun) any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms | Synonyms: life science |
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| birefringence | (noun) splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly | Synonyms: double refraction |
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| cadence | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadency |
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| (noun) the close of a musical section | - |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: beat, measure, meter, metre |
| chemiluminescence | (noun) luminescence resulting from a chemical reaction as the oxidation of luciferin in fireflies | - |
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| circumference | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: perimeter |
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| (noun) the length of the closed curve of a circle | - |
| (noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circuit |
| clarence | (noun) a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers | - |
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| coalescence | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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| coexistence | (noun) existing peacefully together | - |
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| coherence | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherency |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
| coincidence | (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, concurrence, conjunction |
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| (noun) the quality of occupying the same position or area in space | - |
| (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: happenstance |
| competence | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competency |
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| complacence | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacency, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| concupiscence | (noun) a desire for sexual intimacy | Synonyms: eros, physical attraction, sexual desire |
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| concurrence | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrency |
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| (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, conjunction |
| (noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrency |
| (noun) a state of cooperation | Synonyms: meeting of minds |
| condolence | (noun) an expression of sympathy with another's grief | Synonyms: commiseration |
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| conference | (noun) a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic | Synonyms: group discussion |
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| (noun) a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda) | - |
| (noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: league |
| confidence | (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, authority, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
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| (noun) a secret that is confided or entrusted to another | - |
| (noun) a feeling of trust (in someone or something) | - |
| (noun) a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable | - |
| (noun) a trustful relationship | Synonyms: trust |
| confluence | (noun) a flowing together | Synonyms: conflux, merging |
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| (noun) a coming together of people | Synonyms: concourse |
| (noun) a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) | Synonyms: meeting |
| congruence | (noun) the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate | Synonyms: congruity, congruousness |
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| conscience | (noun) conformity to one's own sense of right conduct | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of shame when you do something immoral | - |
| (noun) motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions | Synonyms: moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrong |
| consequence | (noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: import, moment |
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| (noun) the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual | Synonyms: aftermath |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| consistence | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistency, substance |
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| (noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistency |
| continence | (noun) the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters | Synonyms: continency |
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| (noun) voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge | - |
| contingence | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingency, eventuality |
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| convalescence | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: recovery, recuperation |
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| convenience | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
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| (noun) a toilet that is available to the public | Synonyms: comfort station, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, restroom, toilet facility, wash room |
| (noun) the quality of being useful and convenient | - |
| (noun) the state of being suitable or opportune | - |
| convergence | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergency, converging |
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| (noun) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit | Synonyms: convergency |
| (noun) a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena | Synonyms: intersection, overlap |
| (noun) the occurrence of two or more things coming together | - |
| coreference | (noun) the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent | - |
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| corpulence | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, overweight, stoutness |
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| correspondence | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: parallelism |
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| (noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: agreement |
| (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetry |
| (noun) communication by the exchange of letters | - |
| (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness |
| counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
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| counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
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| countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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| covalence | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalency |
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| crapulence | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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| credence | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credenza |
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| (noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: acceptance |
| decadence | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadency, degeneracy, degeneration |
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| decalescence | (noun) phenomenon that occurs when a metal is being heated and there is a sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase; slowing is caused by a change in the internal crystal structure of the metal | - |
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| defence | (noun) (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies | Synonyms: defense, defensive measure |
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| (noun) the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury | Synonyms: defense |
| (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defense, demurrer, denial |
| (noun) protection from harm | Synonyms: defense |
| (noun) a structure used to defend against attack | Synonyms: defense, defensive structure |
| (noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defense, vindication |
| (noun) the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | Synonyms: defense, refutation |
| (noun) the defendant and his legal advisors collectively | Synonyms: defense, defense lawyers, defense team |
| (noun) (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring | Synonyms: defending team, defense |
| (noun) an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack | Synonyms: defence force, defense, defense force |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Synonyms: defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction |
| deference | (noun) a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard | Synonyms: respect |
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| (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness |
| (noun) courteous regard for people's feelings | Synonyms: respect, respectfulness |
| defervescence | (noun) abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature | - |
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| dehiscence | (noun) (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound | - |
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| dependence | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependency, habituation |
| despondence | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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| detergence | (noun) detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergency |
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| deterrence | (noun) the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety | - |
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| (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, intimidation |
| (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: disincentive |
| detumescence | (noun) diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen | - |
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| difference | (noun) the quality of being unlike or dissimilar | - |
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| (noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: conflict, difference of opinion, dispute |
| (noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, divergence |
| (noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: remainder |
| (noun) a significant change | - |
| diffidence | (noun) lack of self-confidence | Synonyms: self-distrust, self-doubt |
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| diligence | (noun) a diligent effort | Synonyms: application |
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| (noun) persevering determination to perform a task | Synonyms: industriousness, industry |
| (noun) conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation | - |
| disobedience | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: noncompliance |
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| (noun) the trait of being unwilling to obey | - |
| dissidence | (noun) disagreement; especially disagreement with the government | - |
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| dissilience | (noun) the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe | - |
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| divergence | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergency |
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| (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, variance |
| (noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergency |
| (noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, difference |
| divulgence | (noun) the act of disclosing something that was secret or private | Synonyms: divulgement |
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| ebullience | (noun) overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval | Synonyms: enthusiasm, exuberance |
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| effervescence | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, frothiness |
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| (noun) the process of bubbling as gas escapes | - |
| efflorescence | (noun) a powdery deposit on a surface | Synonyms: bloom |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
| (noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: rash, roseola, skin rash |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| effluence | (noun) the process of flowing out | Synonyms: efflux, outflow |
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| effulgence | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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| eightpence | (noun) a coin worth eight pennies | - |
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| eloquence | (noun) powerful and effective language | Synonyms: fluency, smoothness |
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| emergence | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egress, egression |
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| (noun) the act of emerging | Synonyms: emersion |
| (noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: egress, issue |
| (noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: growth, outgrowth |
| eminence | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: tubercle, tuberosity |
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| (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: distinction, note, preeminence |
| equivalence | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, comparison |
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| (noun) essential equality and interchangeability | - |
| (noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equality, equation, par |
| essence | (noun) a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor | Synonyms: perfume |
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| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, effect, gist |
| (noun) any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted | - |
| esurience | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
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| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity |
| evanescence | (noun) the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight | - |
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| evidence | (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: grounds |
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| (noun) (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved | - |
| (noun) an indication that makes something evident | - |
| excellence | (noun) the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree | - |
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| (noun) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | Synonyms: excellency |
| excrescence | (noun) (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body | - |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| existence | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world |
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| (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, beingness, face of the earth |
| expedience | (noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view | Synonyms: expediency |
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| (noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking |
| experience | (noun) the content of direct observation or participation in an event | - |
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| (noun) the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities | - |
| (noun) an event as apprehended | - |
| faience | (noun) glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors | - |
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| feculence | (noun) something that is feculent | - |
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