| accusal | (noun) a formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt | Synonyms: accusation |
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| appraisal | (noun) an expert estimation of the quality, quantity, and other characteristics of someone or something | - |
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| (noun) the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth | Synonyms: assessment |
| (noun) a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) | Synonyms: estimate, estimation |
| apprisal | (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: notification, telling |
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| arousal | (noun) the act of arousing | Synonyms: rousing |
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| (noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: foreplay, stimulation |
| (noun) awakening from sleep | - |
| (noun) a state of heightened physiological activity | - |
| carousal | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: bender, booze-up, carouse, toot |
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| commensal | (noun) either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent | - |
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| counterproposal | (noun) a proposal offered as an alternative to an earlier proposal | - |
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| despisal | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despising |
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| devisal | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: contrivance |
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| diflunisal | (noun) nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Dolobid) used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions | Synonyms: Dolobid |
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| disbursal | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | Synonyms: disbursement, outlay, spending |
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| (noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursement, expense |
| dismissal | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
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| (noun) a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial | Synonyms: judgement of dismissal, judgment of dismissal |
| (noun) official notice that you have been fired from your job | Synonyms: dismission, pink slip |
| (noun) permission to go; the sending away of someone | - |
| dispersal | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersion, dissemination |
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| disposal | (noun) the act or means of getting rid of something | Synonyms: disposition |
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| (noun) a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) | Synonyms: administration |
| (noun) a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage | Synonyms: electric pig, garbage disposal |
| (noun) the power to use something or someone | - |
| dossal | (noun) an ornamental hanging of rich fabric hung behind the altar of a church or at the sides of a chancel | Synonyms: dossel |
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| espousal | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptance, acceptation, adoption |
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| (noun) archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast | Synonyms: bridal |
| (noun) the act of becoming betrothed or engaged | Synonyms: betrothal |
| hypoglossal | (noun) supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue muscles | Synonyms: hypoglossal nerve, nervus hypoglosus, twelfth cranial nerve |
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| interspersal | (noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things | Synonyms: interspersion |
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| metatarsal | (noun) any bone of the foot between the ankle and the toes | - |
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| missal | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book containing all the prayers and responses needed to celebrate Mass throughout the year | - |
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| nasal | (noun) an elongated rectangular bone that forms the bridge of the nose | Synonyms: nasal bone, os nasale |
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| (noun) a consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed | Synonyms: nasal consonant |
| orinasal | (noun) a speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels) | Synonyms: orinasal phone |
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| overappraisal | (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overvaluation |
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| perusal | (noun) reading carefully with intent to remember | Synonyms: perusing, poring over, studying |
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| promposal | (noun) The act of asking someone to go to a prom with you | - |
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| proposal | (noun) something proposed (such as a plan or assumption) | - |
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| (noun) the act of making a proposal | Synonyms: proposition |
| (noun) an offer of marriage | Synonyms: marriage offer, marriage proposal, proposal of marriage |
| reappraisal | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reassessment, revaluation, review |
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| recusal | (noun) (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves | Synonyms: recusation |
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| refusal | (noun) a message refusing to accept something that is offered | - |
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| (noun) the act of refusing | - |
| rehearsal | (noun) (psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory | - |
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| (noun) a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert) | Synonyms: dry run |
| reprisal | (noun) a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime | - |
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| reversal | (noun) a change from one state to the opposite state | - |
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| (noun) the act of reversing the order or place of | Synonyms: transposition |
| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reverse, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) a major change in attitude or principle or point of view | Synonyms: about-face, policy change, volte-face |
| (noun) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside | - |
| (noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) turning in an opposite direction or position | Synonyms: turn around |
| (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reverse, setback |
| revisal | (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revise, revision |
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| sisal | (noun) Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope | Synonyms: Agave sisalana |
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| (noun) a plant fiber used for making rope | Synonyms: sisal hemp |
| supposal | (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: assumption, supposition |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of supposing | Synonyms: supposition |
| surmisal | (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmise |
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| surprisal | (noun) the act of surprising someone | Synonyms: surprise |
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| tarsal | (noun) any bone of the tarsus | Synonyms: tarsal bone |
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| thimerosal | (noun) a light-colored crystalline powder (trade name Merthiolate) used as a surgical antiseptic | Synonyms: Merthiolate, sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate |
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| traversal | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traverse |
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| (noun) travel across | Synonyms: traverse |
| universal | (noun) coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions | Synonyms: universal joint |
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| (noun) a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings | - |
| (noun) (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class | Synonyms: universal proposition |
| (noun) (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages | Synonyms: linguistic universal |
| vassal | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege, liege subject, liegeman |
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