| abracadabra | (noun) gibberish and nonsense | - |
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| acciaccatura | (noun) an embellishing note usually written in smaller size | Synonyms: appoggiatura, grace note |
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| achira | (noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained | Synonyms: arrowroot, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot |
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| agora | (noun) 100 agorot equal 1 shekel in Israel | - |
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| (noun) a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece | Synonyms: public square |
| (noun) the marketplace in ancient Greece | - |
| algebra | (noun) the mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations | - |
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| amora | (noun) one of a group of rabbis (active AD 250-500) who discussed the Mishnaic law in the law schools of Palestine and Mesopotamia where they explained and applied earlier teachings and whose discussions are recorded in the Talmud; they emphasized the study of Torah and the importance of personal action and the fulfillment of the commandments | - |
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| amphora | (noun) an ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck; used to hold oil or wine | - |
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| anaphora | (noun) using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier | - |
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| (noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | Synonyms: epanaphora |
| angostura | (noun) the bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters | Synonyms: angostura bark |
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| appoggiatura | (noun) an embellishing note usually written in smaller size | Synonyms: acciaccatura, grace note |
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| aspidistra | (noun) evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant | Synonyms: Aspidistra elatio, bar-room plant, cast-iron plant |
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| aura | (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aureole, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus |
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| (noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing | Synonyms: air, atmosphere |
| (noun) a sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure | - |
| aurora | (noun) an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force | - |
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| (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
| bra | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, brassiere |
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| bravura | (noun) brilliant and showy technical skill | - |
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| caesura | (noun) a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | - |
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| (noun) a pause or interruption (as in a conversation) | - |
| calabura | (noun) a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and fleshy edible fruit; a bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves | Synonyms: calabur tree, Jamaican cherry, Muntingia calabura, silk wood, silkwood |
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| caldera | (noun) a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression | - |
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| calliandra | (noun) any of various shrubs and small trees valued for their fine foliage and attractive spreading habit and clustered white to deep pink or red flowers | - |
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| calyptra | (noun) the hood or cap covering the calyx of certain plants: e.g., the California poppy | - |
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| camera | (noun) equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) | Synonyms: photographic camera |
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| (noun) television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam | Synonyms: television camera, tv camera |
| candelabra | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabrum |
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| capibara | (noun) pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | Synonyms: capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
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| capybara | (noun) pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | Synonyms: capibara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
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| caracara | (noun) any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South America and Central America | - |
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| carbonara | (noun) sauce for pasta; contains eggs and bacon or ham and grated cheese | - |
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| cascara | (noun) dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative | Synonyms: cascara sagrada, chittam bark, chittem bark |
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| cathedra | (noun) a throne that is the official chair of a bishop | Synonyms: bishop's throne |
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| chaulmoogra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra tree, chaulmugra, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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| chaulmugra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra, chaulmoogra tree, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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| chelicera | (noun) either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing | - |
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| chimaera | (noun) a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail | - |
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| (noun) a grotesque product of the imagination | Synonyms: chimera |
| chimera | (noun) a grotesque product of the imagination | Synonyms: chimaera |
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| cholera | (noun) an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food | Synonyms: Asiatic cholera, epidemic cholera, Indian cholera |
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| clepsydra | (noun) clock that measures time by the escape of water | Synonyms: water clock, water glass |
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| cobra | (noun) venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood | - |
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| coloratura | (noun) singing with florid ornamentation | - |
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| (noun) a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music | Synonyms: coloratura soprano |
| copra | (noun) the dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted | - |
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| curandera | (noun) a Mexican woman who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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| demerara | (noun) light brown cane sugar; originally from Guyana | Synonyms: demerara sugar |
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| (noun) dark rum from Guyana | Synonyms: demerara rum |
| (noun) a light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana | - |
| diapheromera | (noun) a variety of stick insect | Synonyms: Diapheromera femorata |
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| diaspora | (noun) the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) | - |
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| (noun) the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel | - |
| dichondra | (noun) a creeping perennial herb with hairy stems and orbicular to reniform leaves and small white to greenish flowers; used as a grass substitute in warm regions | Synonyms: Dichondra micrantha |
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| dobra | (noun) the basic unit of money on Sao Tome e Principe | - |
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| doura | (noun) sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: dourah, durra, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet |
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| dura | (noun) the outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges | Synonyms: dura mater |
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| durra | (noun) sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet |
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| epanaphora | (noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | Synonyms: anaphora |
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| ephedra | (noun) jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds | Synonyms: joint fir |
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| ephemera | (noun) something transitory; lasting a day | - |
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| epiphora | (noun) repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. | Synonyms: epistrophe |
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| era | (noun) a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event | Synonyms: epoch |
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| (noun) a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods | Synonyms: geological era |
| etcetera | (noun) additional unspecified odds and ends; more of the same; entity, other pronoun; pronoun, entity; quantifier: other | - |
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| extra | (noun) something additional of the same kind | Synonyms: duplicate |
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| (noun) an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis) | - |
| (noun) a minor actor in crowd scenes | Synonyms: spear carrier, supernumerary |
| eyra | (noun) long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat | Synonyms: Felis yagouaroundi, jaguarondi, jaguarundi, jaguarundi cat |
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| fedora | (noun) a hat made of felt with a creased crown | Synonyms: felt hat, homburg, Stetson, trilby |
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| fenestra | (noun) a small opening covered with membrane (especially one in the bone between the middle and inner ear) | - |
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| flora | (noun) (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | Synonyms: plant, plant life |
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| (noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: botany, vegetation |
| forestiera | (noun) any plant of the genus Forestiera | - |
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| gyromitra | (noun) any fungus of the genus Gyromitra | - |
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| habanera | (noun) a Cuban dance in duple time | - |
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| (noun) music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera | - |
| haematocolpometra | (noun) accumulation of blood in the vagina and uterus | Synonyms: hematocolpometra |
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| hegira | (noun) a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment | Synonyms: exodus, hejira |
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| hejira | (noun) a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment | Synonyms: exodus, hegira |
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| hematocolpometra | (noun) accumulation of blood in the vagina and uterus | Synonyms: haematocolpometra |
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| hydra | (noun) small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp | - |
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| (noun) trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality | - |
| incisura | (noun) (anatomy) a notch or small hollow | Synonyms: incisure |
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| ira | (noun) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: anger, ire, wrath |
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| kagura | (noun) a stately dance of the Shinto religion that now forms a part of Japanese village festivals. | - |
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| kookaburra | (noun) Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry | Synonyms: Dacelo gigas, laughing jackass |
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| lecanora | (noun) any lichen of the genus Lecanora; some used in dyeing; some used for food | - |
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| lempira | (noun) the basic unit of money in Honduras; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| leptospira | (noun) important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever | - |
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| lira | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Italy; equal to 100 centesimi | Synonyms: Italian lira |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Turkey | Synonyms: Turkish lira |
| (noun) the basic unit of money on Malta; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Maltese lira |
| mantichora | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: manticora, manticore, mantiger |
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| manticora | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticore, mantiger |
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| mantra | (noun) (Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns | - |
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| (noun) a commonly repeated word or phrase | - |
| maquiladora | (noun) an assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border); parts are shipped into Mexico and the finished product is shipped back across the border | - |
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| mara | (noun) hare-like rodent of the Pampas of Argentina | Synonyms: Dolichotis patagonum |
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| marinara | (noun) sauce for pasta; contains tomatoes and garlic and herbs | - |
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| mascara | (noun) makeup that is used to darken and thicken the eye lashes | - |
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| matsyendra | (noun) (Hinduism) a religious posture | - |
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| melagra | (noun) rheumatic or myalgic pains in the arms or legs | - |
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| microflora | (noun) microscopic plants; bacteria are often considered to be microflora | - |
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| mikagura | (noun) a type of formal ritual Shinto kagura dance. | - |
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| mojarra | (noun) small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters | - |
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| monstera | (noun) tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor | Synonyms: ceriman |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Monstera; often grown as houseplants | - |
| mudra | (noun) ritual hand movement in religion or religious dancing, particularly in Hinduism or Buddhism | - |
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| multiflora | (noun) vigorously growing rose having clusters of numerous small flowers; used for hedges and as grafting stock | Synonyms: baby rose, Japanese rose, multiflora rose, Rosa multiflora |
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| naira | (noun) the basic unit of money in Nigeria | - |
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| nigra | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: jigaboo, nigga, nigger |
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| nomenklatura | (noun) the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party | - |
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| nullipara | (noun) (obstetrics) a woman who has never give birth to a child | - |
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| okra | (noun) long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews | Synonyms: gumbo |
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| (noun) tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus | Synonyms: Abelmoschus esculentus, gumbo, Hibiscus esculentus, lady's-finger, okra plant |
| (noun) long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant | - |
| opera | (noun) a building where musical dramas are performed | Synonyms: opera house |
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| (noun) a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes | - |
| orchestra | (noun) seating on the main floor in a theater | - |
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| (noun) a musical organization consisting of a group of instrumentalists including string players | - |
| pachysandra | (noun) any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover | - |
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| palaestra | (noun) a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes | Synonyms: palestra |
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| palestra | (noun) a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes | Synonyms: palaestra |
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| palmyra | (noun) tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving | Synonyms: Borassus flabellifer, longar palm, lontar, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm |
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