| abaca | (noun) Philippine banana tree having leafstalks that yield Manila hemp used for rope and paper etc | Synonyms: Manila hemp, Musa textilis |
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| (noun) a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines | Synonyms: Manila hemp, Manilla hemp |
| abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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| aback | (adverb) by surprise | - |
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| (adverb) having the wind against the forward side of the sails | - |
| abactinal | (adjective) (of radiate animals) located on the surface or end opposite to that on which the mouth is situated | - |
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| abacus | (noun) a calculator that performs arithmetic functions by manually sliding counters on rods or in grooves | - |
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| (noun) a tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave | - |
| abbacy | (noun) the jurisdiction or office of an abbot | - |
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| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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| ablactation | (noun) the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal | Synonyms: weaning |
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| (noun) the cessation of lactation | - |
| abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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| (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: aborticide, abortion-inducing drug |
| abracadabra | (noun) gibberish and nonsense | - |
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| abrachia | (noun) the condition of having no arms | - |
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| abreact | (verb) discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization | - |
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| abreaction | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: catharsis, katharsis |
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| abroach | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: broached |
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| absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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| abstract | (adjective) existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment | - |
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| (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
| (adjective) dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention | - |
| (noun) a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance | Synonyms: abstraction |
| (noun) a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory | Synonyms: outline, precis, synopsis |
| (verb) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically | - |
| (verb) consider apart from a particular case or instance | - |
| (verb) give an abstract (of) | - |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| abstracted | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, scatty |
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| abstractedly | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absently, absentmindedly, inattentively |
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| abstractedness | (noun) preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else | Synonyms: abstraction |
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| abstracter | (noun) one who makes abstracts or summarizes information | Synonyms: abstractor |
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| abstraction | (noun) a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Synonyms: abstract entity |
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| (noun) the act of withdrawing or removing something | - |
| (noun) an abstract painting | - |
| (noun) a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance | Synonyms: abstract |
| (noun) preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else | Synonyms: abstractedness |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization |
| 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 |
| abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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| (noun) a painter of abstract pictures | Synonyms: abstract artist |
| abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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| abstractly | (adverb) in abstract terms | - |
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| abstractness | (noun) the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object | - |
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| abstractor | (noun) one who makes abstracts or summarizes information | Synonyms: abstracter |
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| acacia | (noun) any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia | - |
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| academe | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academia |
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| academia | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academe |
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| academic | (adjective) associated with academia or an academy | - |
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| (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: donnish, pedantic |
| (adjective) hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result | - |
| (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academician, faculty member |
| academically | (adverb) in regard to academic matters | - |
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| academician | (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academic, faculty member |
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| (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: schoolman |
| (noun) someone elected to honorary membership in an academy | - |
| academicianship | (noun) the position of member of an honorary academy | - |
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| academicism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academism, scholasticism |
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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: academicism, scholasticism |
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| (noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academicism |
| academy | (noun) a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) a secondary school (usually private) | - |
| (noun) a school for special training | - |
| (noun) an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature | Synonyms: honorary society |
| acantha | (noun) any sharply pointed projection | Synonyms: spine, spur |
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| acanthion | (noun) the craniometric point at the anterior extremity of the intermaxillary suture | - |
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| acanthocephalan | (noun) any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines | Synonyms: spiny-headed worm |
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| acanthocyte | (noun) an abnormal red blood cell that has thorny projections of protoplasm | - |
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| acanthocytosis | (noun) the presence of acanthocytes in the blood stream (as in abetalipoproteinemia) | - |
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| acanthoid | (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthous, spinous |
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| acantholysis | (noun) a breakdown of a cell layer in the epidermis (as in pemphigus) | - |
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| acanthoma | (noun) a neoplasm originating in the epidermis | Synonyms: skin tumor |
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| acanthopterygian | (noun) a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays | Synonyms: spiny-finned fish |
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| acanthosis | (noun) an abnormal but benign thickening of the prickle-cell layer of the skin (as in psoriasis) | - |
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| acanthotic | (adjective) of or relating to or having acanthosis | - |
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| acanthous | (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthoid, spinous |
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| acanthus | (noun) any plant of the genus Acanthus having large spiny leaves and spikes or white or purplish flowers; native to Mediterranean region but widely cultivated | - |
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| acapnia | (noun) a state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal; can result from deep or rapid breathing | Synonyms: hypocapnia |
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| acapnial | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnic, acapnotic |
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| acapnic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnial, acapnotic |
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| acapnotic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnial, acapnic |
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| acaracide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaricide |
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| acardia | (noun) congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters) | - |
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| acariasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acaridiasis, acariosis |
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| acaricide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaracide |
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| acarid | (noun) very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks | - |
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| acaridiasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acariasis, acariosis |
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| acarine | (noun) mite or tick | - |
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| acariosis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acariasis, acaridiasis |
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| acarophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of small insects and mites and worms | - |
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| acarpellous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpelous |
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| acarpelous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpellous |
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| acarpous | (adjective) producing no fruit | - |
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| acarus | (noun) any of several mites of the order Acarina | Synonyms: genus Acarus |
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| acaryote | (noun) a cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte) | Synonyms: akaryocyte, akaryote |
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| acatalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables | - |
| acataphasia | (noun) a disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves you unable to formulate a statement or to express yourself in an organized manner | - |
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| acathexia | (noun) an inability to retain bodily secretions | - |
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| acathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual | - |
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| acaudal | (adjective) lacking a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: acaudate |
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| acaudate | (adjective) lacking a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: acaudal |
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| acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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| accede | (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: bow, defer, give in, submit |
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| (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: acquiesce, assent |
| (verb) take on duties or office | Synonyms: enter |
| accelerando | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in tempo | - |
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| (noun) a gradually increasing tempo of music | - |
| (adverb) with increasing speed | - |
| accelerate | (verb) move faster | Synonyms: quicken, speed, speed up |
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| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: speed, speed up |
| accelerated | (adjective) speeded up, as of an academic course | - |
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| acceleration | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: quickening, speedup |
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| (noun) an increase in rate of change | - |
| (noun) (physics) a rate of increase of velocity | - |
| accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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| accelerator | (noun) a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine | Synonyms: throttle, throttle valve |
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| (noun) a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles | Synonyms: atom smasher, particle accelerator |
| (noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, gun, throttle |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected | Synonyms: catalyst |
| acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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| accelerometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring the acceleration of aircraft or rockets | - |
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| accent | (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: emphasis, stress |
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| (noun) distinctive manner of oral expression | Synonyms: speech pattern |
| (noun) a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation | Synonyms: accent mark |
| (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: dialect, idiom |
| (noun) special importance or significance | Synonyms: emphasis |
| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accentuate, stress |
| (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
| accented | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | Synonyms: stressed |
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| (adjective) (used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch | Synonyms: tonic |
| accenting | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accentuation, emphasizing |
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| accentor | (noun) small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia | - |
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| accentual | (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to accent or stress | - |
| accentuate | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accent, stress |
| accentuation | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, emphasizing |
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| (noun) the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance | - |
| accept | (verb) consider or hold as true | - |
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| (verb) react favorably to; consider right and proper | - |
| (verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: live with, swallow |
| (verb) be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal | - |
| (verb) give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to | Synonyms: consent, go for |
| (verb) receive willingly something given or offered | Synonyms: have, take |
| (verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: assume, bear, take over |
| (verb) admit into a group or community | Synonyms: admit, take, take on |
| (verb) receive (a report) officially, as from a committee | - |
| (verb) make use of or accept for some purpose | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) be designed to hold or take | Synonyms: take |
| acceptability | (noun) satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: acceptableness |
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| acceptable | (adjective) worthy of acceptance or satisfactory | - |
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| (adjective) adequate for the purpose | - |
| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: decent, satisfactory |
| (adjective) judged to be in conformity with approved usage | - |
| acceptableness | (noun) satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: acceptability |
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| acceptably | (adverb) in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner | Synonyms: so-so, tolerably |
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| acceptance | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptation, adoption, espousal |
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| (noun) the act of taking something that is offered | - |
| (noun) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations | Synonyms: sufferance, toleration |
| (noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: credence |
| (noun) (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract) | - |
| (noun) a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank | Synonyms: banker's acceptance |
| (noun) the state of being acceptable and accepted | - |
| acceptant | (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptive |
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| acceptation | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptance, adoption, espousal |
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| (noun) the accepted meaning of a word | Synonyms: word meaning, word sense |
| (noun) acceptance as true or valid | - |
| accepted | (adjective) generally approved or compelling recognition | Synonyms: recognised, recognized |
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