| actual | (adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: existent |
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| (adjective) being or existing at the present moment | - |
| (adjective) taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated | - |
| (adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: genuine, literal, real |
| (adjective) existing in act or fact | Synonyms: factual |
| actualisation | (noun) making real or giving the appearance of reality | Synonyms: actualization, realisation, realization |
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| actualise | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualize |
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| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualize, realise, realize, substantiate |
| actuality | (noun) the state of actually existing objectively | - |
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| actualization | (noun) making real or giving the appearance of reality | Synonyms: actualisation, realisation, realization |
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| actualize | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualise |
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| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, realise, realize, substantiate |
| actually | (adverb) used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly | Synonyms: in reality |
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| (adverb) in actual fact | Synonyms: really |
| (adverb) as a sentence modifier to add slight emphasis; as a modifier to add slight emphasis | - |
| (adverb) at present | - |
| actuarial | (adjective) of or relating to the work of an actuary | - |
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| actuary | (noun) someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) | Synonyms: statistician |
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| actuate | (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
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| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: incite, motivate, move, prompt, propel |
| actuated | (adjective) moved to action | - |
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| actuating | (adjective) causing motion or action or change | Synonyms: activating |
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| actuation | (noun) the act of propelling | Synonyms: propulsion |
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| actuator | (noun) a mechanism that puts something into automatic action | - |
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| anfractuous | (adjective) full of twists and turns | - |
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| artefactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artifactual |
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| artifactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artefactual |
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| cactus | (noun) any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines | - |
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| contractual | (adjective) relating to or part of a binding legal agreement | - |
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| contractually | (adverb) by virtue of a contract | - |
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| contracture | (noun) an abnormal and usually permanent contraction of a muscle | - |
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| counterfactual | (adjective) going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) | Synonyms: contrary to fact |
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| counterfactuality | (noun) the quality of being contrary to fact | - |
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| echinocactus | (noun) any cactus of the genus Echinocactus; strongly ribbed and very spiny; southwestern United States to Brazil | Synonyms: barrel cactus |
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| factual | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by facts | - |
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| (adjective) existing in act or fact | Synonyms: actual |
| factuality | (noun) the quality of being actual or based on fact | Synonyms: factualness |
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| factually | (adverb) as a fact or based on fact | - |
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| factualness | (noun) the quality of being actual or based on fact | Synonyms: factuality |
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| fracture | (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: crack, cracking |
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| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, faulting, geological fault, shift |
| (noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone | Synonyms: break |
| (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: break |
| (verb) become fractured | - |
| (verb) violate or abuse | - |
| (verb) break into pieces | - |
| (verb) interrupt, break, or destroy | - |
| manufacture | (noun) the organized action of making of goods and services for sale | Synonyms: industry |
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| (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: fabrication, manufacturing |
| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, fabricate |
| (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, invent, make up |
| (verb) create or produce in a mechanical way | - |
| (verb) produce naturally | - |
| manufactured | (adjective) produced in a large-scale industrial operation | - |
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| manufacturer | (noun) a business engaged in manufacturing some product | Synonyms: maker, manufacturing business |
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| (noun) someone who manufactures something | Synonyms: producer |
| manufacturing | (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: fabrication, manufacture |
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| refracture | (verb) break (a bone) that was previously broken but mended in an abnormal way | - |
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| tactual | (adjective) of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch | Synonyms: haptic, tactile |
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| (adjective) producing a sensation of touch | Synonyms: tactile |
| tactually | (adverb) by touch | Synonyms: haptically |
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