| accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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| accretive | (adjective) growing by accretion | - |
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| accroides | (noun) an alcohol-soluble resin from Australian trees; used in varnishes and in manufacturing paper | Synonyms: acaroid resin, accaroid resin, accroides gum, accroides resin, gum accroides |
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| accrual | (noun) the act of accumulating | Synonyms: accruement, accumulation |
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| accrue | (verb) grow by addition | - |
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| (verb) come into the possession of | Synonyms: fall |
| accrued | (adjective) periodically accumulated over time | Synonyms: accumulated |
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| accruement | (noun) the act of accumulating | Synonyms: accrual, accumulation |
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| acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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| acculturation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: enculturation, socialisation, socialization |
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| (noun) all the knowledge and values shared by a society | Synonyms: culture |
| (noun) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | Synonyms: assimilation |
| acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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| acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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| accumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: decumbent, recumbent |
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| accumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| accumulated | (adjective) periodically accumulated over time | Synonyms: accrued |
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| accumulation | (noun) the act of accumulating | Synonyms: accrual, accruement |
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| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: aggregation, assemblage, collection |
| (noun) (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation | - |
| (noun) an increase by natural growth or addition | Synonyms: accretion |
| accumulative | (adjective) marked by acquiring or amassing | - |
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| (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: cumulative |
| accumulator | (noun) a voltaic battery that stores electric charge | Synonyms: storage battery |
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| (noun) (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register | Synonyms: accumulator register |
| (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: collector, gatherer |
| accuracy | (noun) the quality of being near to the true value | Synonyms: truth |
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| (noun) (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number | - |
| accurate | (adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy | - |
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| (adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: exact, precise |
| accurately | (adverb) with few mistakes | - |
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| (adverb) strictly correctly | - |
| accurse | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| accursed | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accurst, maledict |
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| accurst | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accursed, maledict |
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| accusal | (noun) a formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt | Synonyms: accusation |
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| accusation | (noun) a formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt | Synonyms: accusal |
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| (noun) an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence | Synonyms: charge |
| accusative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: objective |
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| (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusatory, accusing, accusive |
| (noun) the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb | Synonyms: accusative case, objective case |
| accusatorial | (adjective) specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor | - |
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| accusatory | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusing, accusive |
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| accuse | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: criminate, impeach, incriminate |
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| (verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | Synonyms: charge |
| accused | (noun) a defendant in a criminal proceeding | - |
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| accuser | (noun) someone who imputes guilt or blame | - |
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| accusing | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusive |
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| accusingly | (adverb) in an accusing manner | - |
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| accusive | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusing |
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| accustom | (verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) | Synonyms: habituate |
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| accustomed | (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: customary, habitual, wonted |
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| asarabacca | (noun) thick creeping evergreen herb of western Europe | Synonyms: Asarum europaeum |
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| bacca | (noun) an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape, tomato, cranberry | Synonyms: simple fruit |
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| baccalaureate | (noun) an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies | Synonyms: bachelor's degree |
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| (noun) a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies | - |
| baccarat | (noun) a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine | Synonyms: chemin de fer |
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| baccate | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: berrylike |
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| (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: bacciferous, berried |
| bacchanal | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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| (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
| (noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts | Synonyms: bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken reveller |
| (noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus | Synonyms: bacchant |
| bacchanalia | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| bacchanalian | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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| bacchant | (noun) (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus | - |
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| (noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus | Synonyms: bacchanal |
| (noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts | Synonyms: bacchanal, drunken reveler, drunken reveller |
| bacchante | (noun) (classical mythology) a priestess or votary of Bacchus | - |
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| bacchantic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler | - |
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| bacchic | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, carousing, orgiastic |
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| bacciferous | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, berried |
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| baccivorous | (adjective) feeding on berries | - |
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| baccy | (noun) leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion | Synonyms: tobacco |
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| deaccession | (verb) sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works | - |
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| disaccharidase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides into monosaccharides | - |
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| disaccharide | (noun) any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis | - |
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| disaccord | (verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disagree, discord |
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| flaccid | (adjective) drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness | - |
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| (adjective) out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance | Synonyms: flabby, soft |
| flaccidity | (noun) a flabby softness | Synonyms: flabbiness, limpness |
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| inaccessibility | (noun) the quality of not being accessible | - |
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| inaccessible | (adjective) capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all | Synonyms: unaccessible |
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| (adjective) not capable of being obtained | Synonyms: unobtainable, unprocurable, untouchable |
| inaccessibly | (adverb) in an inaccessible manner | - |
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| inaccuracy | (noun) the quality of being inaccurate and having errors | - |
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| inaccurate | (adjective) erroneous | - |
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| inaccurately | (adverb) in an inaccurate manner | - |
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| malacca | (noun) a cane made from the stem of a rattan palm | Synonyms: malacca cane |
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| (noun) stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles | - |
| monosaccharide | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharose, simple sugar |
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| monosaccharose | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharide, simple sugar |
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| mostaccioli | (noun) pasta somewhat resembling little moustaches | - |
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| mucopolysaccharide | (noun) complex polysaccharides containing an amino group; occur chiefly as components of connective tissue | - |
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| mucopolysaccharidosis | (noun) any of a group of genetic disorders involving a defect in the metabolism of mucopolysaccharides resulting in greater than normal levels of mucopolysaccharides in tissues | - |
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| nonacceptance | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: turndown |
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| nonaccomplishment | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonachievement |
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| oligosaccharide | (noun) any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis | - |
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| polysaccharide | (noun) any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules | Synonyms: polyose |
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| proaccelerin | (noun) a coagulation factor | Synonyms: accelerator factor, factor V, prothrombin accelerator |
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| raccoon | (noun) an omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and Central America | Synonyms: racoon |
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| (noun) the fur of the North American racoon | - |
| saccade | (noun) a rapid, jerky movement of the eyes between positions of rest | - |
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| (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jerking, jolt |
| saccadic | (adjective) of or related to the rapid movement of the eyes between points of fixation | - |
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| saccharase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose | Synonyms: invertase, sucrase |
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| saccharide | (noun) an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain | Synonyms: carbohydrate, sugar |
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| saccharify | (verb) convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate | - |
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| (verb) sweeten with sugar | Synonyms: sugar |
| saccharin | (noun) a crystalline substance 500 times sweeter than sugar; used as a calorie-free sweetener | - |
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| saccharine | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: cloying, syrupy, treacly |
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| saccharinity | (noun) the excessive sweetness of saccharin | - |
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| saccharose | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent | Synonyms: sucrose |
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| sacculate | (adjective) formed with or having saclike expansions | Synonyms: sacculated |
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| sacculated | (adjective) formed with or having saclike expansions | Synonyms: sacculate |
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| saccule | (noun) a small sac or pouch (especially the smaller chamber of the membranous labyrinth) | Synonyms: sacculus |
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| sacculus | (noun) a small sac or pouch (especially the smaller chamber of the membranous labyrinth) | Synonyms: saccule |
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| staccato | (adjective) (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply | Synonyms: disconnected |
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| (adverb) separating the notes; in music | - |
| tetrasaccharide | (noun) any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield four monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis | - |
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| tobacco | (noun) leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion | Synonyms: baccy |
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| (noun) aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs | Synonyms: tobacco plant |
| tobacconist | (noun) a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes | Synonyms: tobacco shop, tobacconist shop |
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| (noun) a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles | - |
| trisaccharide | (noun) any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield three monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis | - |
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| unaccented | (adjective) (used of syllables) carrying no stress | Synonyms: atonic |
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| (adjective) (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | Synonyms: light, weak |
| unacceptability | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: unacceptableness |
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| unacceptable | (adjective) not acceptable; not welcome | - |
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| (adjective) (used of persons or their behavior) not acceptable or reasonable | Synonyms: impossible |
| (adjective) not conforming to standard usage | Synonyms: unaccepted |
| (adjective) not adequate to give satisfaction | - |
| unacceptableness | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: unacceptability |
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| unacceptably | (adverb) to an unacceptable degree | Synonyms: intolerably |
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| unaccepted | (adjective) not conforming to standard usage | Synonyms: unacceptable |
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| unaccessible | (adjective) capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all | Synonyms: inaccessible |
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