| abolish | (verb) do away with | Synonyms: get rid of |
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| abolishable | (adjective) capable of being abolished | - |
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| abolishment | (noun) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | Synonyms: abolition |
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| abolition | (noun) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | Synonyms: abolishment |
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| abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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| abolitionism | (noun) the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery | - |
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| abolitionist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: emancipationist |
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| ametabolic | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolous |
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| (adjective) undergoing no (or only slight) metamorphosis | - |
| ametabolous | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolic |
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| anabolic | (adjective) characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism | - |
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| (adjective) of or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism | - |
| 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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| antimetabolite | (noun) an antineoplastic drug that inhibits the utilization of a metabolite | - |
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| catabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: katabolic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: katabolic |
| catabolise | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolize |
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| catabolism | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: destructive metabolism, dissimilation, katabolism |
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| catabolize | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolise |
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| diabolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: demonolatry, devil-worship |
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| diabolic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
| diabolical | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
| diabolically | (adverb) as a devil; in an evil manner | Synonyms: devilishly, fiendishly |
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| diabolise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolize |
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| diabolism | (noun) a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan) | Synonyms: demonism, Satanism |
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| diabolist | (noun) an adherent of Satan or Satanism | Synonyms: Satanist |
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| diabolize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolise |
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| hemimetabolic | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous |
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| hemimetabolism | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetaboly, hemimetamorphosis |
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| hemimetabolous | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolic, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous |
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| hemimetaboly | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetabolism, hemimetamorphosis |
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| heterometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolous |
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| heterometabolism | (noun) development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity | Synonyms: heterometaboly |
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| heterometabolous | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolic |
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| heterometaboly | (noun) development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity | Synonyms: heterometabolism |
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| holometabola | (noun) insects that undergo complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabola |
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| holometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolous |
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| holometabolism | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometaboly |
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| holometabolous | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolic |
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| holometaboly | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometabolism |
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| katabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
| katabolism | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: catabolism, destructive metabolism, dissimilation |
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| metabola | (noun) insects that undergo complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabola |
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| metabolic | (adjective) undergoing metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabolous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to metabolism | - |
| metabolically | (adverb) involving metabolism | - |
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| metabolise | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolize |
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| metabolism | (noun) the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life | Synonyms: metabolic process |
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| (noun) the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals | Synonyms: metamorphosis |
| metabolite | (noun) any substance involved in metabolism (either as a product of metabolism or as necessary for metabolism) | - |
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| metabolize | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolise |
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| metabolous | (adjective) undergoing metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabolic |
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| metagrabolised | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolized, metagrobolised, metagrobolized, mystified |
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| metagrabolized | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrobolised, metagrobolized, mystified |
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| parabola | (noun) a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve | - |
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| parabolic | (adjective) resembling or expressed by parables | Synonyms: parabolical |
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| (adjective) having the form of a parabola | Synonyms: parabolical |
| parabolical | (adjective) resembling or expressed by parables | Synonyms: parabolic |
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| (adjective) having the form of a parabola | Synonyms: parabolic |
| parabolograph | (noun) An outdated instrument for drawing parabolas. | - |
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| paraboloid | (noun) a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis | - |
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| paraboloidal | (adjective) having the shape of a paraboloid | - |
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