| anthracite | (noun) a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat | Synonyms: anthracite coal, hard coal |
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| anthracitic | (adjective) relating to or resembling anthracite coal | - |
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| audacity | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audaciousness, temerity |
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| (noun) aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery | Synonyms: audaciousness |
| bacitracin | (noun) a polypeptide antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms; usually applied locally | - |
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| capacitance | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitor, condenser, electrical condenser |
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| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored | Synonyms: capacity, electrical capacity |
| capacitate | (verb) make capable | - |
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| (verb) cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg | - |
| (verb) make legally capable or qualify in law | - |
| capacitive | (adjective) of or relating to capacitance | - |
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| capacitor | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, condenser, electrical condenser |
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| capacity | (noun) the maximum production possible | - |
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| (noun) a specified function | - |
| (noun) capability to perform or produce | - |
| (noun) tolerance for alcohol | - |
| (noun) the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior | Synonyms: mental ability |
| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored | Synonyms: capacitance, electrical capacity |
| (noun) the amount that can be contained | Synonyms: content |
| (noun) (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive | - |
| (noun) the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment | Synonyms: capability |
| dacite | (noun) a grey volcanic rock containing plagioclase and quartz and other crystalline minerals | - |
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| dacitic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of dacite | - |
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| edacity | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
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| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity |
| fugacity | (noun) the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts) | Synonyms: fugaciousness |
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| (noun) the tendency of a gas to expand or escape | - |
| incapacitate | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, disenable |
| incapacitated | (adjective) lacking in or deprived of strength or power | Synonyms: helpless |
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| incapacitating | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, disabling |
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| incapacity | (noun) lack of physical or natural qualifications | - |
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| (noun) lack of intellectual power | - |
| loquacity | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, talkativeness |
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| mendacity | (noun) the tendency to be untruthful | - |
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| mordacity | (noun) a disposition to biting | - |
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| opacity | (noun) the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light | Synonyms: opaqueness |
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| (noun) incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning | Synonyms: opaqueness |
| (noun) the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation | - |
| perspicacity | (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sound judgement, sound judgment |
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| (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicaciousness, shrewdness |
| pertinacity | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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| pugnacity | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, belligerence |
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| radiopacity | (noun) opacity to X-rays or other radiation | Synonyms: radio-opacity |
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| rapacity | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, avaritia, covetousness, greed |
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| (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, voraciousness, voracity |
| (noun) (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey. | Synonyms: predaceousness, predaciousness, rapaciousness |
| sagacity | (noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating | Synonyms: judiciousness, sagaciousness |
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| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, judgment, sagaciousness |
| salacity | (noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: bawdiness, lewdness, obscenity, salaciousness |
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| tacit | (adjective) implied by or inferred from actions or statements | Synonyms: silent, understood |
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| tacitly | (adverb) in a tacit manner; by unexpressed agreement | - |
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| taciturn | (adjective) habitually reserved and uncommunicative | - |
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| taciturnity | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | Synonyms: reserve, reticence |
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| taciturnly | (adverb) without speaking | Synonyms: mutely, silently, wordlessly |
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| tenacity | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness |
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| veracity | (noun) unwillingness to tell lies | - |
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| vivacity | (noun) characterized by high spirits and animation | - |
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| voracity | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness |
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| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness |