| ableism | (noun) discrimination in favor of the able-bodied | Synonyms: able-bodiedism, able-bodism, ablism |
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| ablism | (noun) discrimination in favor of the able-bodied | Synonyms: able-bodiedism, able-bodism, ableism |
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| abohm | (noun) a unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm | - |
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| abolitionism | (noun) the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery | - |
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| abomasum | (noun) the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place | Synonyms: fourth stomach |
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| absenteeism | (noun) habitual absence from work | - |
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| absolutism | (noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence | Synonyms: despotism, tyranny |
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| (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: totalitarianism, monocracy, despotism, dictatorship, one-man rule, Stalinism, shogunate, Caesarism, authoritarianism, tyranny |
| (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: totalism, totalitarianism |
| (noun) the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy. | - |
| abstractionism | (noun) an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation | Synonyms: abstract art |
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| (noun) a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples | Synonyms: unrealism |
| abysm | (noun) a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively) | Synonyms: abyss |
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| academicism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: scholasticism, academism |
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| (noun) Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes. | - |
| (noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academism |
| academism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: scholasticism, academicism |
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| (noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academicism |
| acclaim | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: plaudit, plaudits, eclat, acclamation |
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| acephalism | (noun) absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters) | Synonyms: acephalia, acephaly |
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| acetabulum | (noun) the cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur fits to form a ball-and-socket joint | Synonyms: cotyloid cavity |
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| acetum | (noun) a dilute solution of acetic acid that is used as a solvent (e.g. for a drug) | - |
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| (noun) sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative | Synonyms: vinegar |
| achromatism | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: colorlessness, colourlessness, achromaticity |
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| acmeism | (noun) An early 20th-century Russian school of poetry that rejected the vagueness and emotionality of Symbolism in favor of Imagist clarity and texture. | - |
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| acronym | (noun) a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word | Synonyms: initialism |
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| actinism | (noun) the property of radiation that enables it to produce photochemical effects | - |
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| actinium | (noun) a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores | Synonyms: Ac, atomic number 89 |
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| activism | (noun) a policy of taking direct action to achieve a political or social goal | - |
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| adactylism | (noun) congenital absence of fingers and/or toes | Synonyms: adactylia, adactyly |
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| addendum | (noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: supplement, postscript |
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| adventurism | (noun) recklessness in politics or foreign affairs | - |
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| aecium | (noun) fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores | - |
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| aeroembolism | (noun) obstruction of the circulatory system caused by an air bubble as, e.g., accidentally during surgery or hypodermic injection or as a complication from scuba diving | Synonyms: gas embolism, air embolism |
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| (noun) pain resulting from rapid change in pressure | Synonyms: decompression sickness, gas embolism, caisson disease, air embolism, bends |
| aerogram | (noun) a letter sent by air mail | Synonyms: aerogramme, air letter, airmail letter |
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| ageism | (noun) discrimination on the basis of a person's age | Synonyms: agism |
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| agendum | (noun) a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting) | Synonyms: agenda, order of business |
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| ageratum | (noun) rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium | Synonyms: mist-flower, mistflower, Eupatorium coelestinum, Conoclinium coelestinum |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Ageratum having opposite leaves and small heads of blue or white flowers | - |
| agism | (noun) discrimination on the basis of a person's age | Synonyms: ageism |
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| agnosticism | (noun) a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God | - |
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| (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: scepticism, skepticism |
| ahem | (noun) the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc. | Synonyms: hem |
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| aim | (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: intention, design, intent, purpose |
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| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: target, object, objective |
| (noun) the action of directing something at an object | - |
| (noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: heading, bearing |
| airstream | (noun) a relatively well-defined prevailing wind | - |
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| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: race, wash, slipstream, backwash |
| alarm | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: dismay, consternation |
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| (noun) a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event | Synonyms: warning device, alarm system |
| (noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger | Synonyms: warning signal, alarum, alert |
| (noun) a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time | Synonyms: alarm clock |
| alarmism | (noun) needless warnings | - |
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| alarum | (noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger | Synonyms: alarm, warning signal, alert |
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| alastrim | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: variola minor, milk pox, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, Kaffir pox, West Indian smallpox, white pox, Cuban itch |
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| albinism | (noun) the congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair | - |
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| album | (noun) one or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc | Synonyms: record album |
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| (noun) a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc | - |
| alcoholism | (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, alcohol addiction |
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| (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: dipsomania, potomania |
| aldosteronism | (noun) a condition caused by overproduction of aldosterone | Synonyms: hyperaldosteronism |
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| algorism | (noun) the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration | - |
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| (noun) computation with Arabic figures | - |
| algorithm | (noun) a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem | Synonyms: algorithmic program, algorithmic rule |
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| alienism | (noun) an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being alien | Synonyms: alienage |
| allomerism | (noun) (chemistry) variability in chemical composition without variation in crystalline form | - |
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| allotropism | (noun) the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms | Synonyms: allotropy |
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| alluvium | (noun) clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down | Synonyms: alluvion, alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment |
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| alprazolam | (noun) an antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class | Synonyms: Xanax |
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| altruism | (noun) the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selflessness |
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| alum | (noun) a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum | Synonyms: ammonia alum, ammonium alum |
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| (noun) a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum | Synonyms: potash alum, potassium alum |
| (noun) a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things) | - |
| (noun) a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | Synonyms: graduate, grad, alumna, alumnus |
| alumbloom | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Heuchera | Synonyms: alumroot |
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| aluminium | (noun) a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite | Synonyms: Al, aluminum, atomic number 13 |
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| aluminum | (noun) a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite | Synonyms: Al, aluminium, atomic number 13 |
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| alundum | (noun) a substance made of fused alumina | - |
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| alyssum | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers | Synonyms: madwort |
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| amalgam | (noun) an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams | Synonyms: dental amalgam |
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| (noun) a combination or blend of diverse things | - |
| amateurism | (noun) the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money | - |
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| ambulacrum | (noun) one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located | - |
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| americium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms | Synonyms: Am, atomic number 95 |
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| ammobium | (noun) any plant of the genus Ammobium having yellow flowers and silvery foliage | - |
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| ammonium | (noun) the ion NH4 derived from ammonia; behaves in many respects like an alkali metal ion | Synonyms: ammonium ion |
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| amoralism | (noun) the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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| amylum | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles | Synonyms: starch |
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| anabolism | (noun) the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy | Synonyms: constructive metabolism |
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| anachronism | (noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | Synonyms: misdating, mistiming |
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| (noun) an artifact that belongs to another time | - |
| (noun) a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age | - |
| anagram | (noun) a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase | - |
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| analphabetism | (noun) an inability to read | Synonyms: illiteracy |
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| anamorphism | (noun) the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes | Synonyms: anamorphosis |
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| (noun) metamorphism that occurs deep under the earth's surface; changes simple minerals into complex minerals | - |
| (noun) a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner | Synonyms: anamorphosis |
| anancasm | (noun) An obsolete term for ritualistic act or sequence of acts performed by a person with obsessive-compulsive neurosis. | - |
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| anarchism | (noun) a political theory favoring the abolition of governments | - |
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| androecium | (noun) a male gametoecium | - |
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| anecdotalism | (noun) The property of being related to short accounts of real incidents or persons, often humorous or interesting. | - |
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| anestrum | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrus, anoestrum, anoestrus |
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| aneurism | (noun) a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall | Synonyms: aneurysm |
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| aneurysm | (noun) a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall | Synonyms: aneurism |
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| angelim | (noun) any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira | Synonyms: andelmin |
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| angiocardiogram | (noun) a series of X rays representing the action of the heart and its blood vessels after the injection of a radiopaque substance | - |
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| angiogram | (noun) an X-ray representation of blood vessels made after the injection of a radiopaque substance | - |
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| angiosperm | (noun) plants having seeds in a closed ovary | Synonyms: flowering plant |
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| angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: red worm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, dew worm, earthworm, wiggler, crawler, fishing worm, fishworm |
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| angrecum | (noun) any of various spectacular orchids of the genus Angraecum having dark green leathery leaves and usually nocturnally scented white or ivory flowers | - |
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| angstrom | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: A, angstrom unit |
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| animalculum | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalcule |
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| animalism | (noun) the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature | - |
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| (noun) preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites | Synonyms: physicality |
| animatism | (noun) the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones | - |
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| animism | (noun) the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls | - |
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| annalism | (noun) The writing of annals. | - |
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| annum | (noun) (Latin) year | - |
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| anoestrum | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrus |
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| anonym | (noun) a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role | Synonyms: nom de guerre, pseudonym |
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| anorchidism | (noun) absence of one of both testes | Synonyms: anorchia, anorchism |
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| anorchism | (noun) absence of one of both testes | Synonyms: anorchia, anorchidism |
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| antagonism | (noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: hostility, enmity |
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| (noun) the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors | - |
| (noun) an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility | - |
| (noun) (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure | - |
| anteroom | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: lobby, hall, entrance hall, vestibule, antechamber, foyer |
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| anthem | (noun) a song of devotion or loyalty (as to a nation or school) | - |
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| (noun) a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation) | Synonyms: hymn |
| antheridium | (noun) the male sex organ of spore-producing plants; produces antherozoids; equivalent to the anther in flowers | - |
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| anthropocentrism | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentricity |
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| anthropologism | (noun) a point of view in which human nature is exhaustively determined by the culture in which a person lives, leaving no room for human agency. | - |
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